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Corporations are not people. They are constructs.

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  Corporations are legal persons, but they aren’t natural persons but instead vehicles for actions by natural persons. Granting them voting rights effectively is just granting additional voting rights for the people that control them in proportion of their control, making them effectively a form of selective electoral inequality (and, insofar as as there are government-imposed costs on having a corporation, a form of poll taxes.)
  • ddingus 3y ago
    Yes, I think I agree. However, the idea of a construct being deemed a person makes no sense given how we define what a person is. Further, having essentially broken that definition, we have opened the door for all sorts of crazy legal things to happen! Anything can be a person. Anything can be anything, taken to extremes. In addition to voting issues you mention, having the corporation as person means some of us have agency others do not due to how we operate companies. The owners have a shield for all sorts of otherwise expensive and risky behavior. Great as well as evil actions are possible, affordable and it is not necessary we allow these things. I see it as very harmful.
• zzzeek 3y ago
  Parent commenter was very deftly referring to an infamous quote by Mitt Romney.
  • ddingus 3y ago
    Got it