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> If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.

Exactly. Which is why the idea of "trusting" a corporation, or treating them like you would a human being on any level, is ludicrous. They're a plane crash and a stock dip from becoming a totally different entity.




A person is a midlife crisis[1] or a railway accident[2] away from being a totally different entity. There is no absolute trust, just risk assessment and reevaluation.

[1] I thought it was just a cliche until I saw it happen to someone. She went through some things and upended her whole life.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage


The story of Phineas Gage is a lot less common than that of a company undergoing routine changes in leadership, so it's a bit of a silly comparison.




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