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@Bluebearmonkey The dude was a manager, so he was just stealing his subordinates’ work.
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no Property of a corporation is property. It belongs to the legal person, which in turn ultimately belongs to the natural persons who beneficially own the corporation. Stealing stuff is morally equivalent regardless of whether the owner is a natural or legal person.
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no The sole exception is slaves. It is moral to steal them from their owner as long as you don’t keep them yourself
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@SadlyTemporary @lull_no I’m trying to rescue you from your masters, bro.
But you’re very much buck broken.
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no Respecting property rights is core. If we believe the property has been illegitimately acquired, it doesn’t mean we are morally authorized to be vigilantes
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no Especially when we are taking someone else’s stuff for our own possession
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@SadlyTemporary @lull_no Then I am proudly a bandit.
Trust me… the current crop of oligarchs and their abuse of corporate structures is their own form of banditry.
Move fast, break stuff, steal everything and anything… that’s exactly what Tang Tan and Steve Jobs have done their entire careers.
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no We all take stuff. But we know it’s not right when we do so. There are a lot of grey areas with corporate property that employees created for their jobs. If it’s on their system, it’s theirs. If you keep it on your personal laptop (and never move it to theirs), well…
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@SadlyTemporary @lull_no Move slow, follow the rules, don’t cause a mess… 🫠
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no Respecting property is called civilisation. It’s why civilised people don’t need tyranny to protect them
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@SadlyTemporary @lull_no You don’t understand what built Silicon Valley.
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no Maybe they stole stuff to help get going and it was at the level they didn’t get caught. If a company becomes medium size they need to become more careful, hire legal and compliance people to manage such risks
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@SadlyTemporary @lull_no And it’s not some sort of normative moral thing but an unfortunate legal barrier… which should be ignored if you can get away with it.
I like it!
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no The philosophy of “individuals do whatever they can get away with, government is there to punish harshly so it doesn’t collapse into disorder” is Chinese, perhaps. But civilisation means individuals follow the rules even when enforcement may be absent. You should try it
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@Bluebearmonkey @lull_no PS the lack of civilisation is precisely why Russia fell apart in the 1990s when the punisher disappeared. Meanwhile countries like Poland were able to self-organise without mafia stealing everything
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