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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 01:56 AM
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Corporations are immortal
One of the problems ~ or benefits, depending on your view, is that corporations don't get sick, old and then die. Corporations are 'vastly superior' in that aspect than say, a dictator, who will eventually die and be 'replaced' by someone with a new personality.

Corporations can 'live forever'. They have no personality, no feeling no humanity, no loyalty (except to stockholders)....and they can go on and on....making connections, winning influence, and they will remain forever strong and keep building upon their earlier successes and connections.

Just something to think on.




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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:00 AM
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1. And they have a much longer legislative memory than us mortal stiffs
That's how they can push for really bad policy and get their ass kicked in the 80's, then come back and get it kicked again in the 90's and then come back in the 00's and get a buffet of everything they ever wanted.
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Protagoras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:40 AM
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7. WB NSMA...and totally correct
we here in Oregon are actually now selling off our power company PGE to ....ENRON!

What? These bastards are still in existence? Yup, and doing just fine. Why? Because they are now the HOUSE. And the HOUSE always wins in the end. The odds only run against em in the short run but in a long enough timeline they always always always make money.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:03 AM
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2. That's why they never should have been given 'personhood'
imho
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:10 AM
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3. Corporations need to NOT EXIST.
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:24 AM
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5. I was toying with an idea of corporations having to have a 'mortality'
like after 100 years, they would need to be disbanded. Something along the lines of what an actual 'human' would experience. (100 years would be extremely generous, since humans don't have near that many 'productive years')
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:21 AM
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4. Corporations were given all of the 'rights' of a person....
without any of the responsibilities of humanity. And we, so far, go along with this. We're all doormats for the corporations now, b/c we humans carry the burdens of our human lives. The corporations won't EVER care or carry responsibility for humanity and our human burdens....Corporations aren't human. They're like the 'borg' Why should corporations care? What would be their incentive? (there isn't one b/c corporations aren't "like us" ~ they can't think or feel or love ~).
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:31 AM
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6. I absolutely LOVE your sig line
It says it all.
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julianer Donating Member (964 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 04:41 AM
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8. Democratise the workplace! nt
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 06:19 AM
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9. The problem is they can't go to jail, or suffer the death penalty
when they commit crimes or kill
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 06:55 AM
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11. They also aren't drafted into the military. n/t
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 06:54 AM
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10. Corporations are also immoral. n/t
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