I See Corporate People
Incorporeal Business Malarkey
A couple of days ago I read an article on Substack explaining that the problem with Substack’s Nazi problem is that the owners of Substack were just trying to sell Substack and turn it into a corporation, and they didn’t want to deal with the Nazi thing because that was ruining their efforts to profit as soon as possible. Of course the Atlantic is a corporate journalist hub that’s been the ones opposing it too, so it’s really just been corporations on all sides fighting over Substack and I’m glad they still don’t have it.
Today, since I couldn’t even find that article easily enough to link to it (I’ll edit it in if I find it though) I decided to look up the definition of corporations so I could explain it myself from scratch instead of just citing someone else. The difference between a corporation and other businesses is corporations aren’t owned by any-body, which makes me think they should be called discorporations, except I’m sure the contract behind the corporation is supposed to be the “body.”
How to Determine Which Type of Organization Structure to Use (chron.com)
The law hasn’t merely ruled businesses are people, corporations are by definition people. This makes corporations sound like the equivalent of wealthy people getting out an ouija board and letting it make all the decisions for their business for them with results that are very predictable based on every horror movie ever. It seems like literally everything that’s majorly going wrong in America is the result of corporations, whether it’s doors falling off planes or academia falling apart.
It would be interesting to do a study on corporations and see if they act like people despite, you know, not actually being people in the way anyone means (except other corporations, see: how corporations are definitely formed.) For all the praises showered on the invisible hand of the market, I’m very sure this isn’t what anyone meant.
The most likely solution to all our political problems in America as well as many other countries is probably just to outlaw corporations. Businesses must be run by actual human people, not the invisible hand of the ouija board market or whatever kind of discorporate entity people want to run them because people just love their demonic deals.
The Sequel: Some Ideas for Ending Corporate Power
Yes, corporations are people so they can be liable. They are actually more like a poisonous mushroom that will eventually kill every blade of grass in your yard if you let their grips get in without intervention. For the want of money or in the case of the fungus territory for its fungus network. So if you want to save your own front yard you must root out that ridiculous mushroom so it's spores don't force you to go buy sod.
I have long championed the idea of discorporating corporations . (Omg. I have wanted to use the word discorporate every since I read Stranger In A Strange Land by Heinlein. Oops focus Donn!)
The fact that corporations have legal protections as people, yet are not, cannot be subject to criminal penalty or facing consequences in any meaningful way is to my mind,
Insane, criminal and, an amazing example of evil genius displayed.
Discorporate Corporations!
End the corporate shield illusion and qualified immunity as well.
Hold those that cause harm directly and personally responsible.
A side note. How many companies would cause pollution, create and distribute harmful products, if, the persons responsible were subject to direct consequences?
There would need not be such things as EPA, FDA etc.
All that would be needed are the courts and a jury.
Doing away with the corporate delusion will probably not ever happen simply because it would strip powerful federal agencies of their excuse for existence.