Raymond (sorry, keep beating up on you!) says "the goal of a corporation is to remain in business as long as it can, generate and increase its profits, as well as pay dividends to its shareholders", and then continues to draw analogies between business and life.
To put it bluntly, that's crap. A corporation is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. It is a vehicle used to advance the interests of its shareholders, which can be only making money (well not only; we do have laws and other moral standards which corporations are not and should not be immune from). What kind of life would you have if you ran it like a corporation? What would you be missing out on? What value would your life have?
Speaking of value, I just want to mention (briefly for now) how disturbed I am about the increasing monetization of every aspect of society, above other concerns. Every crisis is reported primarily in terms of economic impact, policies are evaluated primarily on their economics. I'm not saying that this isn't important, but it's one of many important factors, and the dominance of this one has been increasing for years (check the amount of space in the news now compared to a few years ago).
In our increasingly quantitative society it's easy to see why (it's easier to measure money than all these other fuzzy factors), but that doesn't make the hard to measure ones less important. I'm hardly the first person to say that of course... but it's still a bit sad to watch. But the pendulum swings on...
