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GP post regarding 1 is just a manifestation of the illness in the US of considering companies to be people. You should not have empathy for a company.
by alexvoda 3y ago
GP post regarding 1 is just a manifestation of the illness in the US of considering companies to be people.
You should not have empathy for a company.
- barnabee 3y agoThis. No empathy. Companies have no right not to die or be killed. Society doesn’t need to prop up your business model.
- runlaszlorun 3y agoA little while back I went looking online to find the origins of “a corporation is a person”. I’m no lawyer… so feel free to correct me if anyone is… but it looked like the origins of a “corporation is a person” came from simple administrative needs. That it would be unrealistic to make someone indivdually sue each shareholder separately instead od bundling them into one suit and treating the corporation as “one person”. Sure seems like we’ve lost the plot then. In addition to the situations pointed to above, a corporation doesn’t sign up for the military draft, get taxed on their gross income, pay social security, do jury duty, vote in election, etc, etc, etc.
- scrollaway 3y agoIn Belgium administration for example, you usually call a company a “moral person” (as opposed to a “physical person” for humans). This is used to know who is the “person” on the end of various contracts, tax filings, ownerships etc