My point is that such a statement is absolute nonsense; it conveys no information at all. You might as well have been discussing the "jabberwockyness" of a company. What would it even mean for a company have atherosclerosis? In what sense could a company be said to be stenotic? What elements of the company would correspond to the various components of arterial plaque? What about a company could be said to correspond to a transient ischemic attack? How could you identify a company whose 'plaque' is characterized by the presence of lipid-rich necrotic core vs. one that has juxtaluminal hemorrhage or one that is calcified? Can you mitigate the symptoms of an atherosclerotic company via administration of rt-PA or via endarterectomy? No obvious analogues for these features of atherosclerosis exist in the context of a company. The analogy is not just a leaky abstraction; it's a broken one.
