Companies want to consume everything, including peoples’ lives, in order to make themselves richer and bigger. People are “resources” to a company.
Lawnmowers just want to cut your grass, the only resource all they ask for is petrol, and (crucially) they don’t want to consume it exponentially to make themselves bigger and cut exponentially more grass.
If Lawnmowers were people, they’d be those weird obsessive monomaniacal types who’re generally harmless but a bit difficult to talk to. Lots of them would be on LessWrong.
You could form a bond with a lawnmower (or a lawnmower-person), just as you could form a bond with a motorcycle or a family heirloom. Sure, it would essentially be one-way affection, since the lawnmower just wants to do its thing and is only nice to you insofar as you also benefit from short grass—but it wouldn’t want to consume you, control you, or enslave you. Try to form a bond with a corporation and it’ll eat you alive.
i mean most companies won’t eat you alive? you can form a bond with the coca cola company in the same one directional way as the lawnmower and it’s not like they will take advantage of that to extract every dollar from you. in fact basically only like Facebook, tiktok, etc are like that, and even then they’re not that bad; they’re no worse than an abusive human partner
Companies want to consume everything, including peoples’ lives, in order to make themselves richer and bigger. People are “resources” to a company.
Lawnmowers just want to cut your grass, the only resource all they ask for is petrol, and (crucially) they don’t want to consume it exponentially to make themselves bigger and cut exponentially more grass.
If Lawnmowers were people, they’d be those weird obsessive monomaniacal types who’re generally harmless but a bit difficult to talk to. Lots of them would be on LessWrong.
You could form a bond with a lawnmower (or a lawnmower-person), just as you could form a bond with a motorcycle or a family heirloom. Sure, it would essentially be one-way affection, since the lawnmower just wants to do its thing and is only nice to you insofar as you also benefit from short grass—but it wouldn’t want to consume you, control you, or enslave you. Try to form a bond with a corporation and it’ll eat you alive.
i mean most companies won’t eat you alive? you can form a bond with the coca cola company in the same one directional way as the lawnmower and it’s not like they will take advantage of that to extract every dollar from you. in fact basically only like Facebook, tiktok, etc are like that, and even then they’re not that bad; they’re no worse than an abusive human partner