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Democracy In Your Hands.
Should we remove the legal status of corporations as individuals?
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The entity of an individual is a conceptually different than a corporation; except in law, they are treated the same. Time to change that?
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If I form a legal corporation and thus control an entity with the legal status of an individual, then suddenly my will counts as that of two individuals. It’s undemocratic.
if it can’t A) serve in the military, B) serve in a jury, C) be arrested for criminal acts and it isn’t physically or mentally disabled then it should not be a person…legally
@johnbenclark: ah ha. Having read the debate, I am against corporate personhood.
Corporations are not Individuals. They’re huge, conglomerations of Individuals who frequently control vast amounts of wealth and influence—though, admittedly, I tried to start my own Corporation and received neither vast amounts of wealth nor influence, so apparently you do have to work at it. Still doesn’t make them Individuals.
@bob921: I don’t think this is suggesting abolition of corporations, but simply removing many of the rights they have gained over time due to interpretations by the Supreme Court ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood_debate ).
This is complicated for me. I think that it would be useful do this, but how would people organize outside of politics? If I want to contribute resources to a factory, for example, would I have to give to the individual person who owns it? Could multiple people own it, so that more people could have a say in how it is run? I suppose this is the issue – how to have multiple people control a resource and invest in it.
So I don’t know yet.