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In the {{risk|benign}} {{risk|market}} model, the basic unit of commercial replication is the {{risk|individual}}. The analogy to the {{risk|ecosystem}} is close but not perfect: | In the {{risk|benign}} {{risk|market}} model, the basic unit of commercial replication is the {{risk|individual}}. The analogy to the {{risk|ecosystem}} is close but not perfect: | ||
*'''The crabs can pole-vault''' | *'''The crabs can pole-vault''': Individuals can move from firm to firm; {{risk|gene}}s cannot leave one host and join another (except via reproduction) <br> | ||
*'''Firm’s don’t “[[evolve]]”''': However transfixed their executives might be with evolutionary {{tag|metaphor}}s, [[Corporation|corporations]] do ''not'' evolve like organisms. That would involve dying. Firms adapt during life. This is [[Lamarckian evolution]]<ref>Being a great biological heresy.</ref> at best. But, since the crabs can pole-vault, a Lamarckian approach might make sense: The firm is a vessel for replicating {{risk|individual}}s. It is not a replicator itself. | *'''Firm’s don’t “[[evolve]]”''': However transfixed their executives might be with evolutionary {{tag|metaphor}}s, [[Corporation|corporations]] do ''not'' evolve like organisms. That would involve dying. Firms adapt during life. This is [[Lamarckian evolution]]<ref>Being a great biological heresy.</ref> at best. But, since the crabs can pole-vault, a Lamarckian approach might make sense: The firm is a vessel for replicating {{risk|individual}}s. It is not a replicator itself. | ||
*'''The {{risklfirm}} has NO conscience''': No matter how often we tell ourselves it has a corporate [[legal personality|personality]], responsibility and “conscience”, ''these are '''fictions'''''. A firm has no personality other than the one that emerges from the individuals comprising it. Ouija board style.<br> | *'''The {{risklfirm}} has NO conscience''': No matter how often we tell ourselves it has a corporate [[legal personality|personality]], responsibility and “conscience”, ''these are '''fictions'''''. A firm has no personality other than the one that emerges from the individuals comprising it. Ouija board style.<br> | ||
Just as the evolutionary fitness of an organism can only be explained by the reproductive capacity of its genes, so the fitness of an {{risk|firm}} is a function of the survival instincts of its employees.<br> | Just as the evolutionary fitness of an organism can only be explained by the reproductive capacity of its genes, so the fitness of an {{risk|firm}} is a function of the survival instincts of its employees.<br> | ||