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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5753760" data-attributes="member: 2067">[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_R-G_i4Xk]Debbie Downer Noise - YouTube[/ame]<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />It's a little apples and oranges. It's also hard for me to take "evil mega-corporation" invective seriously, since, even if WotC was a mega-corporation, calling an artificial entity "evil" makes no sense to me. Kind of like calling your car evil. The car might be broken, but its not really capable of making a moral choice. Of course, the guys who drive a broken car and then shrug their shoulders when its breaks don't work and it kills some pedestrian might be in a different moral camp...Anyway, when Paizo makes a product I want, I'll be happy to patronize them further. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In Grubb's little piece, he tried to raise a distinction between a stakeholder and a stockholer. While stockholders count as stakeholders, they aren't the ONLY ones that count. There are others (employees, consumers, etc.) that count, too. It's what you get when you reduce human beings to numbers, really:  complete disregard for their humanity. And when the blame gets distributed and the numbers get cited, no one has to feel like they are being the jerk, like nobody decided to do this, it was fate, or it was destiny, or it was corporate science, its much easier to be complicit in the dehumanizing process of accounting.</blockquote>

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