Corp. Citizenship., Is if for everyone? Options

[Mortax]

[Jrayjoker]

Perhaps the most extreme example of what citizenship can mean to someone, and what ends people are willing to go to is Nazi Germany from the 1930s to the 1940s. I know it is almost a cliche, but it happened, and people were more concerned about being ubermenchen than what they were doing to other people.

Having a very strong corp identity could lead one down that path...

[Thanos007]

And that's not to say all of that "belonging" and "elitism" isn't attractive but is it economically sound. Would it help the corps bottom line?

Thanos

[Pinel]

The way megacorps are supposed to behave, whether such notions are attractive or not would be irrelevent. It has to bring a tangible benefit beyond making all the drones like the way they look in the mandatory uniform.

I view the concept of citizenship as a corp taking on most traditional roles of a nation state for employees. The main benefits of that would IMO be, in order:

1) Security: submitting most of your employees (or key ones, if you hold the view that only the elite would get it) to a near-brainwashing from birth is a pretty impressive safety net against subversion, or at least casual intelligence gathering. It increases odds that disloyal staff will be ratted out by their colleagues or family ("1984" by Orwell, anyone ?) or that they will tow the line to protect their loved ones.

2) Morale / productivity: I'm not an expert on the subject, but the concept of the American Dream drew millions of bright and energetic people to America and helped unite them towards common goals of prosperity and freedom. Why couldn't a megacorp use the same concepts (minus the freedom, I guess) to achieve similar results ? All of a sudden, "belonging" through citizenship takes on a whole new meaning, maybe the primary goal of countless subsidiary staff who WANT to compete in the ultimate rat race. People work harder and longer when they feel they are contributing to something greater than they are, or when there's the mother of all rewards at the end - think The Amazing Race nonstop for fifty years of your life. Each megacorp probably has entire divisions of sociologists and psychologists working out the next batch of corporate slogans and internal communications.

3) Efficiency: if you oversee the education of your best employees' kids, you stand a good chance of spotting those who inherit Mom's phenomenal skills at chaos theory analysis, or Dad's awakened physad genes. Even the less gifted ones, who get assigned to routine jobs, are useful as lifelong hostages (see above). Future generations are gradually cheaper to train and perhaps more loyal, as family and peer pressure adds to corporate education.