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So another pathological company with a personality disorder?
by trophycase 7y ago
So another pathological company with a personality disorder?
- d4mi3n 7y agoOrganizations are not people. Characterizing then as such can be very misleading and lead to wildly inaccurate conclusions about why they behave the way they do and what they are likely to do in the future.
- tomc1985 7y agoThe legal concept of corporate personhood kind of says otherwise
- GavinMcG 7y agoThe legal concept of corporate personhood demonstrates the issue.
- ben_w 7y agoCorporate personhood looks like a legal fiction of convenience to me, making contracts, accounting, and responsibilities/obligations etc. easier. Corporations can’t be called up for jury duty or conscripted into military service, they can’t vote, and they don’t need to exist for 18 years before being allowed to take out a line of credit.
- d4mi3n 7y agoThe law can be whatever it is, but that has no bearing on the nature of an organization outside of incentivizing certain kinds of behavior. A business is an organization that needs to make money to survive. Such an organization will find ways to make money, or cease to exist. No amount of law will change the nature of this dynamic.
- ithkuil 7y agoYes! And the same applies to countries as well.