Incorruptible institutions can't be built only out of governance design, because law is itself an institution

Pritikin wrote Religion Unburdened by Belief. His review accepts the diagnosis — financial gravity as shareholder primacy pulling companies toward extraction, answered by Costco's governance, Patagonia's ownership and GitLab's values built into process — then raises it a level: every one of those structures sits inside a legal system, and a legal system holds only while the people running it follow the rules, which he illustrates with the For the People Act of 2019 dying in the Senate. His own question is whether people in power can feel the pull of self-interest without folding, and he finds no reliable way to test for it.

“Incorruptible institutions can’t be built only out of governance design, because law is itself an institution. Someone still has to choose to honor it.” — Joshua Pritikin on Goodreads