> People after all, have free will - and if they can't choose to quit their jobs, terminate their relationships with shareholders, executives, employees, etc.,

> People after all, have free will - and if they can't choose to quit their jobs, terminate their relationships with shareholders, executives, employees, etc., then they are in a position of slavery or at least, indentured servitude of some sort. That's not quite the way I see it. To me, a corporation is an emergent intelligence that results from a system of smaller parts interacting with one another. Those parts are in fact shareholders, executives, employees, etc. In this sense, saying a corporate person is a slave to its employees is like saying we biological people are slaves to our cells and organs. I have no idea if that's true, but I think it's fun to think about the implications. It certainly brings into question one of the premises of your post; that people have free will.