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>I think you are missing the part where there are very few interactions between individuals. Since the corporation was granted person hood, and the bulk of all
by ETH_start 3y ago
>I think you are missing the part where there are very few interactions between individuals. Since the corporation was granted person hood, and the bulk of all interactions are really between consenting corporations, actual real humans are left out.
You can't use mental gymnastics to justify regulations. Corporations are just legal arrangements between individuals. There is a chain of voluntary interactions linking the shareholders to any action the corporation takes. To restrict corporate behavior is to restrict the right of people to coordinate their actions through legal arrangements like corporations.
>The corporation can do a number of things, like swamping the human with legal costs, non-stop lawsuits.
If powerful entities, whether people acting collectively as corporations, or just wealthy individuals, are able to do this, then that is a problem with the legal system, and the solution should be targeted at fixing that problem.
These problems should not be used as an excuse to create laws that violate the right to freely contract. In practice, these laws and the principles behind them end up being used by the same corporations that you've turned into your bogeyman, to massively exploit the population.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoThat is all very semi-mathematically correct, in the utopia of economics text books with all individuals are rational with equal with perfect knowledge and resources. What actually happens in practice, humans are not rational, they have to eat, and all decisions are compromised. Corporations are a group of individuals, but I've seen plenty of middle managers, that have to hit their numbers, are feeling the pressure, and they will definitely break laws, dump waste, take advantage of underlings. And, the underlings, they have bills, have to eat, they go along with it. It is pressure all the way down through the organization, nobody is free to make 'contracts' between individuals. There are no free decisions. Guess overall, think you are missing the the power dynamic and how that plays out in groups. LOL - Groups of monkeys.
- ETH_start 3y agoI agree that these are all problems, but again, I think the solution is to focus on fixing those problems directly, and not let special interests use these problems as the pretense for imposing their long-desired restrictions on the free market.