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> Controls should be exerted on companies and institutions, not people. Not sure there is a clear distinction. Companies and institutions are owned and ran by
by worrycue 5y ago
> Controls should be exerted on companies and institutions, not people.
Not sure there is a clear distinction. Companies and institutions are owned and ran by people.
You can run a one-man corporation if you like.
- aserafini 5y agoExactly - selling heroin to kids (outside of medicinal purposes) should be illegal. Whether it is a "company" (co-operating group of individuals) or an individual seems irrelevant.
- Bayart 5y agoIt's my fault for being unclear. And really, companies and institutions are people, legally speaking. They have moral personality, at least in Civil Law. In any case, they operate with a different incentive structure than single private citizens do. I don't think it's a revolutionary thing to say that companies don't, in fact, behave like physical people do.