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Lately I have been trying to propagate type ideas: (1) corporations are not people. They are groups of people acting in concert under the direction of a small
by efitz 2y ago
Lately I have been trying to propagate type ideas:
(1) corporations are not people. They are groups of people acting in concert under the direction of a small number of, or even one, person. They get legal immunities that individuals and unincorporated companies don’t. It is bat shit crazy to legally treat them as people for the purpose of “rights”. They don’t have morals (literally corporations are amoral entities). They concentrate power. We should be limiting them; not doling out rights to them.
(2) the best way to limit corporate power is to make it undesirable to centralize too much corporate power. I think that corporations should have a tax rate base on power - eg increasing based on revenue and number of employees and market share. The rates should increase with increases in any of these numbers. If done correctly, it would eliminate the need for antitrust and much oversight as it naturally deters centralization. Lots of details like shell corporations controlling other corporations, etc, but do-able.
- TrapLord_Rhodo 2y agoI agree with you, but not your solution in 2. Market share is shaky data to quantify at best, and you'd just incentivice software companies over manufacturing companies for tax purposes (Since software has lower employee count, and hardware software are going to extribly linked going forward) There needs to be a way to reverse IPO companies as spin outs much easier, with some kind of government incentive to do so. It would unlock alot of value instead of causing it to be withheld. Some examples of this would be google splitting out search, youtube, and AI products, with the datacenters and IP staying under alphabet.