Some will tell you that an organization is the people who make it up,
but that's not the case at all. The whole is larger and completely
different from the sum of its parts. The system that we as a society
have invented to run our world is a simple one. It's a game with a
small number of rules. You put the pieces on the board, wind it up,
and let it go. The thing is, the rules involved are all about
money. The underlying theory is that you motivate people to provide
value to society by making it be in their best interest to do so. But
that's the intent; the mechanism is much less vague. The mechanism is
money.

Corporations are not evil. That kind of anthropomorphism is
inappropriate. Corporations are too stupid to be evil, only people can
be that.  Corporations are mechanisms. People can influence them, but
by and large, corporations just follow the rules.

Bear in mind that, for a publicly-traded company, if a CEO makes a
decision because it's the right thing rather than because it's the
most profitable thing for the shareholders, he will lose his job, and
possibly be sued into oblivion. That's the way the rules work.

For someone not solely motivated by profit, the way to win this game
is to pick your goals such that your goals, whatever they may be, are
aligned with the goals that the corporate mechanism will seek for
itself. For example, if your goal is ``working on interesting stuff,''
then the best way to do that is to find a company which looks at the
stuff you're interested in as a way to meet its goal of ``making lots
of money.''

And sometimes the only way to win is not to play.