The reason, and I don't think its a good one, as I understand it has to do with the hacky way in which our legal system treats corporations. A corporation isn'

The reason, and I don't think its a good one, as I understand it has to do with the hacky way in which our legal system treats corporations. A corporation isn't its own class of entity. Its basically a a repurposed concept of a person. "Corporate personhood" is the term. They are and aren't people at the same time. They are because the law says so. They aren't because reality says so. You end up with weird consequences like how do you punish a corporation thats broken the law? Well you cant jail one really. So the only recourse most of the time are fines. People didn't break the law, the corp did. Which is also a person because we said so. What we need is a constitutional amendment that defines a corporation as a separate entity from people and sets the standards for who is criminally responsible for a corp. Personally I feel it should be some combination of the owners and the executives running it. Usually its the executives that are the cause for evil but the owners often incentivize them to do so.