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Are you saying that the political will of a corporation is no more or less than the sum of the political wills of the people in the corporation?

• Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  In theory, yes. In practice though, it's the shareholders that call the shots, and the employees are threatened with getting fired if they try and organize and start making demands. But that's where governments can come in, and implement things like basic worker rights.
  • scatters 6y ago
    In theory, that's how it works in practice. In practice, though, the shareholders have a lot less power than that: they only get to vote at the AGM, and that's very much a managed democracy - the managers being the C-suite, and the majority of shares held by institutional investors who will vote whatever way is recommended by the officers.
  • Bakary 6y ago
    I don't think it's even true in theory since corporations live in a larger context of the country or countries they are in. As for countries themselves, we could argue that they also live in a context of all the other countries, but I would say that for the reasonably large ones it is the case their political will is roughly equivalent to the collective sum.
• inscionent 6y ago
  Technically the political will of a corporation is no more or less than the sum of its bank account. To this point maybe no more or less than the sum of its Named Officers' political wills.