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Business's are amoral entities, designed with just a single charter: to increase the bottom line for it's majority stakeholders. Nothing about that is inherently democratic or good for their customers, for the environment, for the nation that company occupies, for anyone not in the company, or even for any one of their bottom tier employees by default. Any adoption of altruistic practices are either part of the companies branding and therefor good for business, or are core beliefs held by the majority stakeholders and are adopted by force. This also works for adoption of not so altruistic practices as well, and we shouldn't leave it up to chance.

If anything, corporate structure creates a multiplier effect on the influence of single humans or small groups of humans thereby corrupting the one-person one-vote intent of democracy. While I agree with the philosophical kernel of the Supreme Court's citizens united ruling that money is free speech, just like many things, at large scale, it has unintended side effects that need to be thwarted by campaign finance reform so that some people don't have MORE free speech then others.