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I think the ability to steer a potentially-immortal "legal entity" with capabilities that an individual citizen doesn't have, and that has zero existence outsid

I think the ability to steer a potentially-immortal "legal entity" with capabilities that an individual citizen doesn't have, and that has zero existence outside what what we collectively will into existence via the government, is definitely a privilege. But yes, there's also a strong argument in favor of transparency here because it's a good, pro-social idea. My argument is more a counter to folks crying that their liberty's being stepped on or whatever. Government creates corporations, we can have it do what we want with/to them, some moral argument against our at least being able to know who the hell's benefiting from these creations of our government is somewhere in "not even wrong" territory.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> is definitely a privilege Voting is both a privilege and a right. Incorporating is not a privilege inasmuch as the government isn’t typically afforded discretion in granting it.
- TheNewsIsHere 2y ago
  Governments aren’t without the ability to deny incorporation, and they routinely dissolve or suspend corporations passively by operation of law. For example failure to file an annual information report in my state for a number of consecutive years automatically results in a suspension of your business registration (and lawful authority to transact business).