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I hope we can agree that allowing corporations to vote in any kind of political process is taking corporate personhood too far
by bluefirebrand 5mo ago
I hope we can agree that allowing corporations to vote in any kind of political process is taking corporate personhood too far
- rayiner 5mo ago[flagged]
- soco 5mo agoThen it wouldn't be a big deal to change that charter, right? Right? Right? Of course, if the actual locals are bothered by it - not us on the internet with exactly zero dogs in that fight.
- rayiner 5mo agoThe charter in question has allowed non-resident voting since the 1950s.
- bluefirebrand 5mo agoBecause owning a corporation becomes a way for you to vote twice, once on your own behalf, once on behalf of your corporation. This seems like an obvious problem
- klaff 5mo agoI absolutely agree. They shouldn't be able to vote and they shouldn't have free speech rights. Corporations are a legal structure - a way to allow risk sharing to encourage investment that would otherwise maybe not happen if one had to risk everything in order to invest. But when we choose to allow that, and it is a choice, we should not give those entities the rights of people. It is simply absurd.