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$15/mo is compensation. Corporations are not people, as much as some court decisions and politicians would like us to believe they are. A corporation's 5th am
by kelnos 2y ago
$15/mo is compensation.
Corporations are not people, as much as some court decisions and politicians would like us to believe they are. A corporation's 5th amendment rights cannot be violated, because it does not have those rights.
Corporate charters are allowed to exist at the pleasure of the government.
- alwa 2y agoIs the compensation “just,” though? Seems like an awfully round number to be the result of a fair-minded analysis. The Affordable Care Act mechanism always struck me as one somewhat fair way to do it: the insurers set a price for a more-or-less well-defined product in a well-defined market. They compete with each other on that price, then the government achieves its desired social effects by subsidizing low-income insureds in proportion to that commercially-derived price. Just saying “well, insurance is $5 now” seems less convincingly fair to the people doing the work to deliver the service. And rather less sustainable in the long run.
- ensignavenger 2y agoThe compensation has to be just, which generally means Fair Market value. Corporations are owned by people, taking something from a corporation is no different than taking the thing from the corporations owners. Further, the law applies to not only corporate ISPs, but also individuals operating an ISP.