Can I marry a corporation? Can a corporation be sent to jail?
No?
Then corporations are not people.
Making a corporation have the same rights as people doens't create equality, it creates unequality. Corporations are (I know this is hard to believe but hear me out!) made up of people. People control them, decide what they do with their money and resources and so on. So if a corporation has the same rights as people then the people in charge of corporations have double the rights of us. After all, not only can the people behind the corporation take advantage of their free speech, but the corporation itself can as well! They have twice as many voices as us! (actually I lie, thanks to the economics involved they have 1000 times as many voices as the rest of us)
This isn't even getting into the fact that until now the courts have not, in fact, ever declared a corporation a person. A clerk working for the court (who also happened tothe owner of a railroad) added that bit on his own to a decision in a case that had been brought against the railroads.
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No?
Then corporations are not people.
Making a corporation have the same rights as people doens't create equality, it creates unequality. Corporations are (I know this is hard to believe but hear me out!) made up of people. People control them, decide what they do with their money and resources and so on. So if a corporation has the same rights as people then the people in charge of corporations have double the rights of us. After all, not only can the people behind the corporation take advantage of their free speech, but the corporation itself can as well! They have twice as many voices as us! (actually I lie, thanks to the economics involved they have 1000 times as many voices as the rest of us)
This isn't even getting into the fact that until now the courts have not, in fact, ever declared a corporation a person. A clerk working for the court (who also happened tothe owner of a railroad) added that bit on his own to a decision in a case that had been brought against the railroads.
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