Monday, December 2, 2024

Corporations Aren't People

 One of the things that people fail to realize is that corporations are not people. It seems like it should be obvious, but even the US Supreme Court has failed to recognize the difference. Another misconception is that corporations exist to provide jobs for people. This is also false. Corporations usually benefit from having fewer employees. Corporations lack even the most basic form of empathy. They exist for the single purpose of generating profit for their "shareholders". These "shareholders" consist of mindless computer algorithms focusing almost exclusively on quarterly profits. The corporation's top executives are not actually in control of them. The fact that some humans end up insanely wealthy is simply a side effect of the system. People do not control the corporations. The opposite is true. Corporations control people all the way up to the top executives.