Anti-Corporatism

[Anti-Racism]

Our problems, the logic goes, originate in these large business entities and their soulless pursuit of wealth. Since our society is a marketplace, and the marketplace rewards large wealth centers, corporations are not only inevitable but essential.

This makes "corporations are evil" an unactionable answer, and forces those who adopt it as a viewpoint to barricade themselves behind downloading Open Source(tm) browsers, buying Fair Trade(tm) coffee, and supporting independent film. None of these have a substantive effect on corporations.

Read More: Anti-Corporatism (http://www.corrupt.org/articles/anti-corporatism/) by Brett Stevens

I've always thought there was truth to this: Corporations, like soylent green, are made up of people... and those seem to be rotten.

[Drocket]

I honestly think that the biggest mistake that the human race has ever made is declaring corporations to be virtual people. Its utterly insane to give what are nothing more than artificial constructs of contracts equal rights to actual living human beings - and in practice, they have far greater rights than actual humans, because their artificial nature means they can never actually be punished for wrongdoing.

That's not to say that corporations shouldn't exist - they can, when properly regulated and controlled, be useful. Its simply important to remember that they're ultimately nothing more than pieces of paper, and have no actual rights, not even the right to exist. We need to go back to the terms and original intentions under which corporations were created, which was that they were extremely limited constructs that were only permitted to exist so far as they were useful. If a corporation is no longer useful (not to mention if they're actively destructive), dissolve them. Corporations should continuously be forced to prove that they deserve continued existence.

[Anti-Racism]

I honestly think that the biggest mistake that the human race has ever made is declaring corporations to be virtual people.


I agree it's a mistake, but something else went wrong first.