[jsprogrammer]

>Unlike people, corporations do not consume for the sake of consumption, instead they invest in assets.

Uh, what exactly is the difference between consuming and investing in assets? Most investment in assets is actually just a claim to consume some of the ROE.

Also, it's not clear to me how shifting cash flows into something makes an asset (or how a physical asset could directly benefit from increased cash flow [not sure how this is even possible; I can't pump FRN's into my car's gas tank]).