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Yousefzadeh's Law Regarding The Treatment Of Large And Successful Corporations

Posted by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Tue Oct 11, 2005 at 10:52:22 PM EST

As a given corporation grows more successful and the size of said corporation grows in a manner roughly commensurate with the degree of success enjoyed by the corporation, the tendency of others to term the corporation an evil entity--whether explicitly or implicitly--approaches one.

Cf. Google.

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power (none / 0) (#1)
by fling93 on Thu Oct 13, 2005 at 02:25:32 PM EST
Well, power does corrupt, including economic power.

How exactly do you pronounce Yousefzadeh, by the way?

Economic power can certainly corrupt . . . (none / 0) (#2)
by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Thu Oct 13, 2005 at 10:38:38 PM EST

But it seems to me that concerns about economic power are being put up rather preemptively and in advance of any actual corruption. The dynamic seems to be that any fresh and interesting company is praised as a business David and the more it succeeds, the more Goliath-like it becomes--even before it has actually done anything that can be considered wrong.

Yousefzadeh is pronounced just the way it is written, with an emphasis on the first syllable and with the "a" pronounced as "ah". 


"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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yeah (none / 0) (#3)
by fling93 on Fri Oct 14, 2005 at 09:19:00 PM EST
Yousefzadeh is pronounced just the way it is written, with an emphasis on the first syllable and with the "a" pronounced as "ah".

Thanks. I had a tendency to put the emphasis on the 2nd syllable.

it seems to me that concerns about economic power are being put up rather preemptively and in advance of any actual corruption.

Yeah, I think you're right about the David-Goliath thing. And it also probably has to do with people's tendencies to personify companies, despite them being amoral entities purely motivated by their fiduciary responsibilities. And of course, young companies responding to competition are going to act in ways that seem more warm and fuzzy than companies defending their market share from a position of strength and/or seeking to leverage their success to take on new markets.

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