Free Government

Democracy In Your Hands.

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.

@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 ).

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.

@johnbenclark: ah ha. Having read the debate, I am against corporate personhood.

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

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.