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To me, it seems that discussing about corporations vs. individuals is the wrong kind of discussion to have. At the end corporations are groups of individuals, a
by harperlee 6y ago
To me, it seems that discussing about corporations vs. individuals is the wrong kind of discussion to have. At the end corporations are groups of individuals, and whenever someone argues about unfairness of different treatment, there's an implicit "and that's bad because some individuals end up on a better position than others" that, I think, should be talked more explicitly.
At the end of the day, a corporation is an instrument, and its wealth is the wealth of some individuals. Corporations are instruments to coordinate wealth creation, so perhaps the issue is how/whether rich people are profiting too much from "The System" we have in place, be it through an excessive command of corporations (which are allowed certain things) or through other means. I mean, if wealth inequality among individuals were close to nil, then it would not be too polemic to raise taxes if we need more public budget, or lower them if we need to push the economy forward - the issue when taxes need to increase or decrease is where do you cut / take.
So perhaps we're focusing our analysis on optimizing the wrong thing.