Re: corporations/More Side Issue

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Sabri writes: 
> The issue is the following;
> 
> If I heartlessly set up some objective functions and
> crank my optimization tools to optimize them, why
> should anybody trust me?
> 
> What if the optimal solution of my objective function
> requires me to screw you?

that's my concern, too. I think that life in market society (a commodity-producing society) encourages the "screw you to benefit me" objective function to be embraced. It's only the existence of other, non-market, institutions that prevent the Hobbesian war of each against all from taking hold fully.
Jim D.