Speaking of books and bookshops, the LBD version (which is the only example with a corporation that I know of) is basically crossed with your friend's example to produce You've Got Mail, so at least Nora Ephron has also had thoughts along that line.
In the context of your comments, I'd say a corporation would still work for me; a massive corporation? Maybe not, but the econ framework of a firm in theory and practice actually does line up with the Pemberley estate and duties of the original novel; it's certainly not left-field to me. Most of it comes down to the execution (and honestly, understanding of what a firm looks like from the inside vs outside). LBD completely failed to represent a family corporation or a start-up, or remember that the stock market exists and a publicly traded company like their version of Pemberley might be hit with a fire sale of the company shares in the context of how they did the Wickham-Lydia storyline!
...which is where I wrote my AU where Pemberley tanks shortly after and Darcy goes to work with Lizzie at her new start-up and they build something new together but my (not small) list of criticisms of LBD probably still has nothing on yours.
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In the context of your comments, I'd say a corporation would still work for me; a massive corporation? Maybe not, but the econ framework of a firm in theory and practice actually does line up with the Pemberley estate and duties of the original novel; it's certainly not left-field to me. Most of it comes down to the execution (and honestly, understanding of what a firm looks like from the inside vs outside). LBD completely failed to represent a family corporation or a start-up, or remember that the stock market exists and a publicly traded company like their version of Pemberley might be hit with a fire sale of the company shares in the context of how they did the Wickham-Lydia storyline!
...which is where I wrote my AU where Pemberley tanks shortly after and Darcy goes to work with Lizzie at her new start-up and they build something new together but my (not small) list of criticisms of LBD probably still has nothing on yours.