Comments on: Can the Creativity of Social Persuasion Cure “Corporate Asperger’s Syndrome”? http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/11/25/can-social-persuasion-thwart-the-emergence-of-corporate-aspergers-syndrome/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Borrowind http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/11/25/can-social-persuasion-thwart-the-emergence-of-corporate-aspergers-syndrome/#comment-5750 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:47:15 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=7125#comment-5750 I suppose that part of the problem is that one persons “enhanced experience” can serve to markedly degrade someone else’s experience. I don’t particularly want to be sitting next to someone on a train who’s watching a violent movie on a seat-back TV, for instance.

]]> By: Richard Sever http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/11/25/can-social-persuasion-thwart-the-emergence-of-corporate-aspergers-syndrome/#comment-5743 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:14:54 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=7125#comment-5743 Sutherland is not the first to draw such comparisons. The documentary <The Corporation likened corporations to sociopaths, claiming they satisfy all necessary criteria – irresponsibility, anti-social tendencies, refusing to accept responsibility for actions, lack of remorse, etc.

In this case the argument against outsourcing to low-wage economies was that, far from providing badly needed “reasonably well-paid job[s]“, companies pay barely-living wages, stifle development, and capitalize on dire working conditions that would never be legal elsewhere…

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