Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.06.26 15:07:00 -
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Quote:The Caldari must look out for corruption in their midst. I do not agree with the system that they use: this... dictatorship of the corporations.
A corporation isn't an individual, pilot, it's something built by the collective effort of many individuals. A corporation can no more be a dictator than a station or a supercapital can - dictatorship requires agency, which corporations don't have because they are not sentient entities in their own right.
In any case the point of a corporate meritocracy is that if you're good at your job, you get promoted. If you bring prosperity and success, then you are demonstrating that you can be entrusted with authority, you are demonstrating the capacity to use it wisely and for the greatest common good.
In theory. The greatest flaw in our system is not corruption - as has been indicated, the term is arguably meaningless in a corporate meritocracy - but with nepotism, the promotion of individuals because they are related to or in the personal favour of a powerful individual.
Heth's own ascension was a form of nepotism - the "powerful individual" in his case being in fact a syndicate of wealthy shareholders who reversed the meteoric plummet of Caldari Constructions' stock and installed him as CEO, and the surge of popular support he enjoyed after that footage of him piloting the MTAC at the armour forge riot. He didn't earn his position as part of the system, which is presumably why he felt so confident in seeking to dismantle it. He didn't climb the ladder, he was abruptly teleported to the top of it without having proven his head for heights.
There is no such thing as a flawless system. I suspect the Gallentean one may be more "fair" by the definition that everybody has equal input into who the leader is, but that the Caldari system is more "fair" in the sense that our leaders are not indebted to their campaign funders, their voters and their constitutents.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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