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The concept of a corporation is fundamentally unjust. It doesn't make sense that there are entities which have more rights than people. If I do a crime, I go t

The concept of a corporation is fundamentally unjust. It doesn't make sense that there are entities which have more rights than people. If I do a crime, I go to jail. If a corporation does a crime, they only need to pay a small fine. Not to mention that they have many thousands of people working for them doing crimes on their behalf for which are never caught and never punished. Just the scale of a corporation, makes it impossible to prevent crime. They are crime factories by design. If a nation state kills someone, it's not called murder. If a corporation commits fraud, it's not called fraud... So long as they don't run out of money. Corporations can influence laws in ways that I can't. I can't even talk to a politician. Corporations have far better access to government contracts and the tender process than regular citizens. There is subtle, but harmful corruption constantly taking place behind the scenes. Not only that, but the people who work for corporations are, to some extent, shielded from the crimes that they commit on behalf of corporations as it limits their liability by design, not to mention all the opportunities for cover ups and deflection of liability that they provide. It absorbs and neutralizes liability. Nobody ends up taking responsibility. The crimes keep getting more frequent; corporations keep finding people who are more and more desperate and willing to commit crimes on their behalf. People create shell companies just to launder borrowed money to corporations, in the hope that they will get a well paid corporate job from them after their shell company runs out of money... The list of schemes/crimes is endless and beyond my imagination. The first corporations ended up bankrupt. E.g. Both Dutch and British East India Company, South Sea Company, Mississippi Company... They ALL turned into bubbles and collapsed spectacularly, every single time. That was before the fiat monetary system came along and started propping them all up... Now the scam never ends. The entire economy is fully monopolized by these proven scam constructs. They suck up all opportunities and produce cheap, low quality products... but because they take away opportunities from everyone, nobody who isn't a corporate shareholder has surplus income and are therefore forced to buy cheap, low quality corporate products.

boeingUH60 3y ago
> If I do a crime, I go to jail. If a corporation does a crime, they only need to pay a small fine. Many corporate executives have gone to prison for crimes they committed while working. > Corporations can influence laws in ways that I can't. I can't even talk to a politician. You can talk to a politician if you bother to call or email their office. Stop being obtuse. > Corporations have far better access to government contracts and the tender process than regular citizens. There is subtle, but harmful corruption constantly taking place behind the scenes. You want individuals to bid directly for government contracts? > Not only that, but the people who work for corporations are, to some extent, shielded from the crimes that they commit on behalf of corporations as it limits their liability by design. It absorbs and neutralizes liability. Nobody ends up taking responsibility. The crimes keep getting more frequent; corporations keep finding people who are more and more desperate and willing to commit crimes on their behalf. Opinion, not fact. Maybe you're complaining they should be held more accountable, which is valid. But working under a corporation can't prevent anything if the DOJ decides to go after the individual perpetrator. Thanks for falling for the author's clickbait though..
- jongjong 3y ago
  > You can talk to a politician if you bother to call or email their office. Stop being obtuse. Obviously you have more money than me. They don't answer my emails, ever. I tried. > You want individuals to bid directly for government contracts? There should be constructs to represent businesses which are not limited liability.
throw__away7391 3y ago
> The concept of a corporation is fundamentally unjust. No it is not. The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous. The quality of life enjoyed by the average person even in developing countries would have been unimaginable by many measures to people living just a few centuries ago. All the little first world boys whining on social media are perfectly happy to have clean water to drink, electricity on demand, video games to play, food to magically show up in their local grocery, roads to travel on—all these things that require the coordinated work of billions are just happen and are assumed to happen, there is never a complaint that their garbage is collected on schedule or that fresh fruits have been cultivated and harvested and shipped from the other side of the world for their enjoyment. It is only when: - they are asked to contribute something back to this system or especially when - someone else has more than them That they decide a grave injustice is being committed.
- jongjong 3y ago
  > The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous. I completely disagree. You're conflating the benefits of technological innovation which are substantial with the benefits of socio-economic and legal 'innovation' which are non-existent and in fact negative. It's like there is a really good horse but it's covered in parasites; e.g. ticks and you're praising the parasites for helping the horse win the race. It won in spite of the ticks, not because of them. If you look at the west (e.g. US, Europe) in the 1800s and 1900s, most families could buy a nice house with land on just one income without even taking on debt. They could achieve this even while there were world wars going on and far less advanced technology than we have today. The narrative about things improving for developing countries (or any other country) is nonsense. It's thinly veiled propaganda, just like ESG and Wokeism. If things were improving in developing countries, why would people from these countries be trying to immigrate to the west in unprecedented numbers today, even while the west itself is clearly declining? The GDP per capita of essentially all African countries is as low as ever. Only China has been doing well; but that's only because the west gave them a monopoly on manufacturing at its own expense due to short term thinking; which happens to be incentivized by corporate bonus structures in the west. I don't even want to start talking about the media and how it interacts with big corporations and big government... But it would explain why you think everything is going great; all while an increasing number of people, highly skilled people are living in poverty. The level of deception in the media is unlike anything we've ever experienced before.

boeingUH60 3y ago

> If I do a crime, I go to jail. If a corporation does a crime, they only need to pay a small fine. Many corporate executives have gone to prison for crimes they committed while working. > Corporations can influence laws in ways that I can't. I can't even talk to a politician. You can talk to a politician if you bother to call or email their office. Stop being obtuse. > Corporations have far better access to government contracts and the tender process than regular citizens. There is subtle, but harmful corruption constantly taking place behind the scenes. You want individuals to bid directly for government contracts? > Not only that, but the people who work for corporations are, to some extent, shielded from the crimes that they commit on behalf of corporations as it limits their liability by design. It absorbs and neutralizes liability. Nobody ends up taking responsibility. The crimes keep getting more frequent; corporations keep finding people who are more and more desperate and willing to commit crimes on their behalf. Opinion, not fact. Maybe you're complaining they should be held more accountable, which is valid. But working under a corporation can't prevent anything if the DOJ decides to go after the individual perpetrator. Thanks for falling for the author's clickbait though..

jongjong 3y ago
> You can talk to a politician if you bother to call or email their office. Stop being obtuse. Obviously you have more money than me. They don't answer my emails, ever. I tried. > You want individuals to bid directly for government contracts? There should be constructs to represent businesses which are not limited liability.

throw__away7391 3y ago

> The concept of a corporation is fundamentally unjust. No it is not. The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous. The quality of life enjoyed by the average person even in developing countries would have been unimaginable by many measures to people living just a few centuries ago. All the little first world boys whining on social media are perfectly happy to have clean water to drink, electricity on demand, video games to play, food to magically show up in their local grocery, roads to travel on—all these things that require the coordinated work of billions are just happen and are assumed to happen, there is never a complaint that their garbage is collected on schedule or that fresh fruits have been cultivated and harvested and shipped from the other side of the world for their enjoyment. It is only when: - they are asked to contribute something back to this system or especially when - someone else has more than them That they decide a grave injustice is being committed.

jongjong 3y ago
> The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous. I completely disagree. You're conflating the benefits of technological innovation which are substantial with the benefits of socio-economic and legal 'innovation' which are non-existent and in fact negative. It's like there is a really good horse but it's covered in parasites; e.g. ticks and you're praising the parasites for helping the horse win the race. It won in spite of the ticks, not because of them. If you look at the west (e.g. US, Europe) in the 1800s and 1900s, most families could buy a nice house with land on just one income without even taking on debt. They could achieve this even while there were world wars going on and far less advanced technology than we have today. The narrative about things improving for developing countries (or any other country) is nonsense. It's thinly veiled propaganda, just like ESG and Wokeism. If things were improving in developing countries, why would people from these countries be trying to immigrate to the west in unprecedented numbers today, even while the west itself is clearly declining? The GDP per capita of essentially all African countries is as low as ever. Only China has been doing well; but that's only because the west gave them a monopoly on manufacturing at its own expense due to short term thinking; which happens to be incentivized by corporate bonus structures in the west. I don't even want to start talking about the media and how it interacts with big corporations and big government... But it would explain why you think everything is going great; all while an increasing number of people, highly skilled people are living in poverty. The level of deception in the media is unlike anything we've ever experienced before.