Claire Billegas: You must have just read the communist manifesto. Without corporations where do you think this world would be right now... still in the dark ages, just like your mindset.
Virgilio Echter: Greedy Corporations have all the Rights because tPres.Bush and all of his Cronies were put there by the Corporations!
Hubert Jestes: A residing salary, is in ordinary terms a meaningless buzz be conscious. It has no definition in any respect. Is a residing salary for a 18 year previous, the comparable as a residing salary for a 35 year previous with a spouse and a pair of little ones ? of direction no longer. yet no person expects Burger King to pay a 35 year previous burger flipper, adequate to pay the mortage on a house and carry his relatives. A firms job, is to no longer supply you with a job, yet to make the proprietors money. whilst will human beings comprehend that easy certainty. in case you do no longer in ordinary terms like the device, Then bypass i! nitiate your man or woman organization and pay your workers despite you like....Show more
Evelin Turlich: Just their millions of stock holders and everyone 401k's aside from that not anyone.
Claude Gloden: Actually Joe S, a corporation would be like voluntary state IF each person received equal representation and contributed that which he/she could afford. Naturally this isn't the case because corporate shareholders are treated based on amount of contributed capital, and this is NOT the same as a voluntary collective.
Coralie Goldsberry: They DON'T have "rights." Only PEOPLE are guaranteed rights under the Constitution.
Mandy Mustaro: The only right a corporation should have is the right to conduct business until running afoul of regulation or disappearing due to lack of competitiveness.
Booker Moros: What the blazes are you talking about? It's those 'greedy corporations' that have helped to make the United States the most powerful nation in ! the world. Powerful enough, in fact, to be the first in the hi! story of our planet to spread FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY to oppressed peoples. Geez, kid, you're out of it....Show more
Azzie Trembly: Only individuals should have rights. Corporations are legitimate organizations when the property submitted to corporate ownership is given voluntarily. The state is illegitimate in terms of individual rights (assuming that property rights are among those rights) because it subsumes property against the will of people under its rule [1] [2].Regarding your "greedy" label, every individual is greedy to the extent that he adopts his own goals and acts in the interest of achieving them. The term "greed" is a pejorative term used when goals are set to attain material wealth. But every person who chooses, at a minimum, to seek to feed and cloth himself has material goals. The argument is only at what point do the goals of an individual become greedy.The important point for me is not greed. I do no have a problem with corporations representin! g the combined interest of multiple people [3]. The problem is one of insisting upon voluntary association, including the mutually advantageous trade of property. When trade is so conducted, I may satisfy my "greed" (meet my goals) by appealing to your "greed" (help you to meet your goals).The problem with corporations is when they act in ways that transfers wealth to them by coercive means. Sometimes, the representatives of corporations act in common (i.e. against the laws of the state) criminal ways. The handling of these individuals is a matter of law enforcement. Other times, the very laws of the state provide the implements by which corporate officials may aquire wealth by violence or fraud. To oppose these individuals is to also oppose the officials of the state since they act together.Corporations should be allowed to be entities as long as we understand that only individuals act. Within the law, care should be taken to distinguish between corporate officials ! acting within the interests of the corporation and acting according to ! their own interests.RESPONSE: I'm not sure if I understand you. Do you mean that every person, regardless of talents or capital possessed should have equal say in the running of corporations? Should the seasoned businessman have no more say in managing the corporation than the naive kid just out of high school? Should he have no more say than the drunk or the imbecile?If a person has accumulated great sums of capital through voluntary exchange with others, he possesses his capital because he created value for those with whom he exchanged or else they would not have done the exchange. His voice in society may only be made equal to those of lower ability by undoing the effect of the voluntary exchanges. Common criminals do this on small scales when they steal from the wealthy. The state does it on a massive scale through taxation and laws passed by granting every person the same voice concerning the possessions of the wealthy [4].Your term "voluntary state" is an oxymo! ron. Just what do you mean by "voluntary"?...Show more
Hal Rouse: Corporations are owned by individuals.
German Thal: Great to see all the lawyers here. Res ipsa loquitor. Stare decisis.
Ariel Arons: States should not be "persons" either. But I agree, legal recognition of corporations as individuals is not in the best interests of the public.
Antonia Mogg: They represent the interest of their shareholders. Why do you label corporations 'greedy'? Corporations provide jobs for millions and millions of Americans. Corporations are made up of American citizens at all levels of employment who contribute to the economy. Yes, there are some individuals who are 'greedy', and unethical in their business practices, but unless you want government to 'nationalize' everything, (like in Venezuela, which only gives profits to the greedy government officials), corporations are the life-blood of the American economy....Show more
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