> Yes, entire industries are reconfigured and nation-states are redrawn because some humans want them to be reconfigured.
I think you're missing the point that if necessary, the humans involved can be swapped out until ones with the 'right' desires are in place.
> but that in no way implies that an organization is actually some kind of inhuman entity that functions without humans.
An organization doesn't have to be capable of functioning without humans to be an inhuman entity with inhuman motivations and so on. The human components just need to be fungible and more easily steered by tweaking incentives etc. than the organization is.
For that matter, epiphenomena like regulatory capture really don't occur at an individual level much, but largely at the interface between governments/agencies and corporations, or even higher-level entities like industry trade groups and consortia.
I think you're missing the point that if necessary, the humans involved can be swapped out until ones with the 'right' desires are in place.
> but that in no way implies that an organization is actually some kind of inhuman entity that functions without humans.
An organization doesn't have to be capable of functioning without humans to be an inhuman entity with inhuman motivations and so on. The human components just need to be fungible and more easily steered by tweaking incentives etc. than the organization is.
For that matter, epiphenomena like regulatory capture really don't occur at an individual level much, but largely at the interface between governments/agencies and corporations, or even higher-level entities like industry trade groups and consortia.