Comment by biophysboy
Comment by biophysboy 2 days ago
I think its more subtle; they fight for regulations they deem reasonable and against those they deem unreasonable. Anything that curtails growth of the business is unreasonable.
Comment by biophysboy 2 days ago
I think its more subtle; they fight for regulations they deem reasonable and against those they deem unreasonable. Anything that curtails growth of the business is unreasonable.
The non-biological term would be "publicly-traded corporation". If anything their behavior is worse when there is no controlling founder.
This thread is an exaggeration. Disney could have operated Micky Mouse themed casinos on its premises with probable success, it could also lobby to change regulation that is associated with that.
However companies have balancing factors which are other than maximizing short term profits, such as moral image
It's called life.
All life grows and consumes as much as it can. It's what makes it life. "Control" happens when there's more life contesting the same limited resources, and usually involves starvation, but if the situation persists on evolutionary timescales, then some life adapts to proactively limit growth. Then, if some of that adapted life unadapts itself, we call that "cancer", which I think is what you were going for.
There is a term in biology for things which decide to grow uncontrollably, to the detriment of the surrounding ecosystem.