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Not all natural persons can vote. Despite what Trump says, green card holders are disallowed such. The trouble, I think, is that some people want to keep corpo

Not all natural persons can vote. Despite what Trump says, green card holders are disallowed such. The trouble, I think, is that some people want to keep corporations, but to somehow keep a leash on them so that they're only weaponized against their enemies. If you truly hated corporate personhood, instead, you might start talking about how corporations shouldn't be allowed in any circumstances. You can't keep a leash on them. They're effectively immortal, enormously rich beyond even billionaires, and have agendas. Like, I'm not exaggerating... they have agendas, and can play a long game. You'll never politically neutralize them as long as they exist, and unneutralized they will just continue to chip away until they've got their legal personhood back.

thfuran 3y ago
>Not all natural persons can vote The ones that were created in the US over eighteen years ago and haven't been convicted of a felony can. The same is not true of corporations, because they're not legally equivalent to humans.
PeterisP 3y ago
They don't have independent agendas - company owners have agendas, and they have the means and the rights to have the company implement whatever the owner's agenda is.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
  No, they do have independent agendas. The ownership in an S corp is spread out over many thousands of people, and they are ineffective at exerting their own agenda onto the company. Even those who believe themselves effective at doing so. I think it was Charlie Stross who first said that corporations are actual AIs whose code executes on wetware of its employees. In the execution of that AI code, new agendas are developed that were never communicated or even imagined by anyone who could reasonably be called an owner.
  - singleshot_ 3y ago
    No; basic eligibility criteria for Sub-S require ownership of the entity be limited to 100 owners.
pixl97 3y ago
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259

thfuran 3y ago

>Not all natural persons can vote The ones that were created in the US over eighteen years ago and haven't been convicted of a felony can. The same is not true of corporations, because they're not legally equivalent to humans.

PeterisP 3y ago

They don't have independent agendas - company owners have agendas, and they have the means and the rights to have the company implement whatever the owner's agenda is.

NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
No, they do have independent agendas. The ownership in an S corp is spread out over many thousands of people, and they are ineffective at exerting their own agenda onto the company. Even those who believe themselves effective at doing so. I think it was Charlie Stross who first said that corporations are actual AIs whose code executes on wetware of its employees. In the execution of that AI code, new agendas are developed that were never communicated or even imagined by anyone who could reasonably be called an owner.
- singleshot_ 3y ago
  No; basic eligibility criteria for Sub-S require ownership of the entity be limited to 100 owners.

pixl97 3y ago

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259