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What exactly is a corporation in your opinion? Something that’s completely independent of “people”? Corporations are people and they produce things that people

• dlkf 6y ago
  > Corporations are people This is an interesting usage. The same sentence comes up a lot and normally it is intended to mean "corporations are (legally) people (though they are obviously not literally people)." But you seem to mean "corporations are literally people." I think the distinction normally made is actually kind of important, because not only is a corporation obviously not literally a single person with intentions and agency, but it's also a little different than "a group of people" because of the economic dynamics imposed by corporate law. How about this: Corporations do what their directors (people) order, and directors are ultimately beholden to activist shareholders (also people). The activist shareholders typically want to maximize profits, and believe the corporation can do so by meeting market demand (of people).
• esarbe 6y ago
  Corporations not people. People have consciousness, emotions, morals, values, friends, lovers, depression, hunger, pain, hopes and dreams. Corporations are not people. Come on, repeat it with me; corporations are not people. Let it sink in, because that's important. People have intrinsic value. Corporations don't. To suddenly have 0 corporations in the world, you'd need have magic and that's the end of the discussion. Because, you know, magic.