All of human endeavor is equally valid. We make up our rules ourselves, and when enough of us decide the rules need to change, there is no higher authority, no force on Earth that gets to decide whose rules are the “real” ones. Laws, contracts, and constitutions are just words on paper that are only worth anything if enough people decide they are. No one is infallible. No institution is eternal.
Ironically, it’s execs of large companies that are probably most adept, out of any of us, at intuitively realizing exactly this. I’m not saying that to be pithy, I believe it’s literally true.
The folks who get to those positions understand reality to be fully malleable, often from a young age I’d bet, and they spend their lives very deliberately warping it to their own ends. It’s almost the defining trait of an executive at a megacorp.
All of human endeavor is equally valid. We make up our rules ourselves, and when enough of us decide the rules need to change, there is no higher authority, no force on Earth that gets to decide whose rules are the “real” ones. Laws, contracts, and constitutions are just words on paper that are only worth anything if enough people decide they are. No one is infallible. No institution is eternal.
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
Ironically, it’s execs of large companies that are probably most adept, out of any of us, at intuitively realizing exactly this. I’m not saying that to be pithy, I believe it’s literally true.
The folks who get to those positions understand reality to be fully malleable, often from a young age I’d bet, and they spend their lives very deliberately warping it to their own ends. It’s almost the defining trait of an executive at a megacorp.