[perl4ever]

I disagree with your first sentence. But apart from that, the term "corporation" does not necessarily only mean large for profit joint stock corporations in the US, of the sort that are typically demonized. For instance, worker cooperatives or credit unions can be types of corporation. Or, "the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere is the Harvard Corporation, known formally as the President and Fellows of Harvard College"

So, I think you have a rather facile understanding of what you are talking about.

[FussyZeus]

> the term "corporation" does not necessarily only mean large for profit joint stock corporations in the US

I like how you couldn't even attempt to define what I was talking about so you could condescend to me about not understanding it without basically restating the exact way I was using the word. Well done.

When people think "corporation" they think exactly that, large for profit stock corporations. Yes, credit unions are technically corporations. Hell, even LLC is a kind of corporation. You're arguing dictionary versus contextual usage, for reasons I can't quite put together.

And "typically demonized?" How much of modern colonialism and the exploitation of the developing world can be laid directly, unambiguously, at the feet of corporations?

[perl4ever]

If something is a fundamental part of society, then it's necessarily linked to essentially everything bad in society.

And if something is linked to power and wealth, it's linked to everything bad that people can do with power and wealth, which is everything.

You casually use the term "developing world", but I think that term implies those countries have the goal of becoming more like the US and Europe, and that that's a good thing. Do they need more wealthy and powerful corporations of their own, or is there another path?