Bataar wrote:
syzygyish wrote:
Too be busy, off course, implies you are doing something important
but what if its not
how can a society establish in law that a corporation has the rights of an individual?
Remember the phrase, "No taxation without representation?" If the corporations are taxed, they should have the ability to represent themselves.
Well, let one appear in court and argue for that then. Not some person speaking on behalf of the corporation, but the corporation itself.
Gee, that doesn't really make sense, does it.
So we recognize that they are not people in terms of most forms of responsibility, but are people in terms of rights. That probably seems fair to people on the payroll. Otherwise, let's recognize that they are collections of people acting in concert. Each one of those people has rights to representation, the collective entity does not. No taxation without representation is for the individual humans, not the collective entity.
If we don't get this right, we inevitably give up democracy for oligarchy because individuals outside the 1% cannot compete against the power of collectives.
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