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Corporations should only be considered as "people" if the executives and shareholders can be put to jail for criminal offenses - such as supplying poison to ind
by nine_zeros 2y ago
Corporations should only be considered as "people" if the executives and shareholders can be put to jail for criminal offenses - such as supplying poison to individuals.
- geodel 2y agoIndeed, can't wait to see teachers, firefighters, and other state and federal employees going to prison as their pension funds get invested in corporations committing crimes.
- Supermancho 2y agoYes, this would be the consequence. People would stop investing in these companies, knowing the consequence. The flip a switch send people to jail fantasy, is silly handwaving.
- nine_zeros 2y ago> Yes, this would be the consequence. People would stop investing in these companies, knowing the consequence. The flip a switch send people to jail fantasy, is silly handwaving. Or. just take away corporate personhood and the investors will no longer by liable for jail time.
- snickerbockers 2y agoContrapositively if we can't punish corporations for breaking the law the way we punish people, then the corporations must not be people and we shouldn't endow them with all the freedoms and rights that actual people have.
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