To quote a comedian… I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
Corporations can be people, but their lifetimes have to be tied to the average lifespan of the citizens. So every 80 years or so it has to die and pass it’s holdings onto a child corp. Also a reversed lottery where a statistically equivalent amount of corporations get statistically equivalent diseases to the American population. Your state has a statistically higher level of cancer due to industrial waste, the local corporations have a statistically higher chance of just ceasing to exist. The accountants and lawyers would effectively work around it, but at least it might make a corp think twice before introducing the all new deep fried stick of butter sandwich with fentanyl.
Treating corporations as people has warped US politics and harmed the climate. We need to overturn Citizens United.
Does she not understand which court case is which? Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. in 1886 was the case that established corporate personhood in the United States.
If you do not understand the history of corporate personhood, you cannot hope to attempt to overturn it. Corporations wield more power than ever, and they will spend billions of dollars to ensure it stays as court precedent.
The Roberts’ Court has entered the chat
*except for the death penalty. We should absolutely be dissolving companies with a track record of illegal activity or ones that effectively kill people for profit.
Indeed. They’re not really treated as people: all protections, no consequences.
*better than people.
Actual people suffer repercussions from crimes, including penalties that inhibit their ability to earn money - while corporations have a layer of protection real people don’t have that makes it generally illegal to prevent them from making money. Corporations, even when they commit murder (corporate or human) face the equivalent of misdemeanours, simple fines, or are expected to punish themselves.
For the curious, Amy Westervelt runs the podcast drilled, which does unbelievably incredible reporting on climate change and fossil fuel corporations.
I seriously cannot recommend her work enough, it’s spellbinding.
I used to listen to this.
Last episode from June 3rd 2025, afaics.
Is there (going to be) newer content?
Thanks!
Agreed. But how?
We never started. Laws did, because the government ceased to be “by the people, for the people”. We have to fix that first.
I mean we never should have started and its well past time to stop which should be before we started.
Especially taking into account that corporations never treated us as people.
We need to start fully treating them like people. The Reich wing is pushing for the death penalty, great, Plantir and Nestle and the like can be the first to be executed.
Right. First we execute them all, then we stop treating them like people.
We have this tool, let’s use it for the one worthwhile use it has before destroying it.
Clawback bullshit case defences, but also clawback bullshit tax defences.
