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01-10-2019, 04:01 PM | #12 |
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One question:
Do you have GURPS Boardroom and Curia stats for this corp for us to take a look at?
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01-10-2019, 04:05 PM | #13 |
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01-10-2019, 04:18 PM | #14 |
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Ah, missed the link in the original post....
... The 2.4 million employees all have an Involuntary Duty?
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01-10-2019, 04:24 PM | #15 |
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Ah, chattel slavery on an incomprensibly vast scale. You just don't see it like you used to.
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01-10-2019, 04:30 PM | #16 |
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Fee? I don't know what sort of fee you're thinking of. You can find the case at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alcoa. It's generally considered one of the major cases in U.S. antitrust law.
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But that was the big thing that jumped out at me perusing the small PDF s/he provided.
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01-10-2019, 05:26 PM | #18 |
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01-10-2019, 05:47 PM | #19 |
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Any company that advanced would be nationalized by the US government to prevent any competitor from getting the technology. The unnecessary parts would be spun off into separate companies, but every TL9+ aspect would be nationalized and kept at above top secret clearance. Anyone involved in the chattel slavery would likely also end up going to prison for the rest of their lives.
The way that a mega corporation could evolve would be to create a new technology, ruthlessly exploit it, and bribe/hire everyone who could limit their growth. As long as it does not start assassinating people, keeps its employees happy, and proves to its home nation that it more valuable in one piece than many pieces, it will likely survive. When it stops doing those three things, that is when people will start trying to destroy it. |
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I don't understand why the stats show two different Wealth levels. I don't think plausibility is a meaningful question given you are talking about a company that has TL10-11 technology. But there are other issues. You mentioned that these ultra-tech innovations are patented which would mean they are recorded in a public register, making for an incompatibility with Genesis hoping to retain secrecy and exclusive possession of advanced TL. Even though the patents would protect their legal possession of the technology the knowledge itself would alter TL8 sociiety beyond recognition and would be appropriated by non-compliant regimes. Also, eventually, patent protection expires. How old are some of the older patents already? For them to have gotten up to this level of wealth would suggest some of the products have been commercialized for some time so if the patents correspond approximately to the initial commercialization, some of them must be getting close to expiry. It doesn't make sense that the company would pay $624,000 per year to even the lowliest employees. At that rate its annual salary costs are about 1/4 of the Startup value. You say the four leaders are 'majority' shareholders. Who then are the minority shareholders, what proportion do they hold, and why are they willing to tolerate the astronomical salaries? How, when and from whom did the company obtain credit lines in the hundreds of billions of dollars? What were the pre-merger valuations of the four preceding companies that merged together? Your write up says the four leaders are controlling shareholders, but one of your questions asks how they can establish 'total shareholder control'. Do you mean how can they buy out the minority shareholders? If that's what you mean, they could use their voting control to carry out a compulsory buy out, but the arrangement would have to provide fair value to the minority interests or a court would disallow it. As for destroying the company, I think the White Queen is the point of vulnerability. |
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