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>I know that as an individual I want "all the badness" uncovered, but the same rules around discovery apply to corporate entities as individuals. The point is:
by verve_rat 5y ago
>I know that as an individual I want "all the badness" uncovered, but the same rules around discovery apply to corporate entities as individuals.
The point is: why? Corporate entities and individuals follow the same rules because we (read: societies, governments, parliaments) decided that would be the case. But is that the best outcome? Should we revisit that decision?
- ggm 5y agowhich is why I asked: > Sort-of, the underlying question is "why did we allow corporate entities to become legal 'persons' in the first place" ?
- thfuran 5y agoBecause that was the most straightforward legal mechanism for achieving all kinds of desirable things like forming any sort of contract at all with a company as a whole rather than one of its employees or holding a company liable for damages resulting from actions of its employees.
- ggm 5y agosort of, in my mind, like why public limited companies had to emerge, in order to drive some outcomes. unlimited risk investment wasn't attractive even with upsides. as a child, I understood "corporation" to mean "town council" and entirely wanted the products, which tended to public utility functions. I didn't actually understand corporate in any other sense for years.