#corporations are in literal fact superintelligent AGIs with unrestricted control over the world

[danimia]

This is also why it's extremely important to view corporations not as a collection of people doing individual things, but as a single entity that splits all its decision-making tasks among enough employees that any given human appears innocent.

Corporations are as real a form of life as bee/ant colonies are, and they care about their employees just about as much as we care about the cells of our body—important in aggregate, perhaps, but you don't cry about exfoliating in the shower.

Consider that our legal systems already treat corporations as people (technically, "legal persons"), and yet you just balked at the idea that a corporation, a thing created by humans, could possibly be a living thing that is not human.

Why did you have that reaction? Who—or, in fact, what—benefits from you holding to the fiction that corporations are just organizations under human control?

"Decentralization" as accountability sink

the common meaning of ‘decentralized’ as applied to blockchain systems functions as a veil that covers over and prevents many from seeing the actions of key actors within the system. Hence, Hinman’s (and others’) inability to see the small groups of people who wield concentrated power in operating the blockchain protocol. In essence, if it’s decentralized, well, no particular people are doing things of consequence. Going further, if one believes that no particular people are doing things of consequence, and power is diffuse, then there is effectively no human agency within the system to hold accountable for anything.

-Angela Walch, Deconstructing 'Decentralization': Exploring the Core Claim of Crypto Systems

h/t DSHR