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by hulitu 620 days ago
> (corporations are people)

But they don't get in jail.

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But it is legal to buy and sell pieces of them or dissolve them. What is your market cap? Oh wait, buying you is illegal.

People keeping on saying that cliché that like it is somehow profound or a great statement of injustice. When saying it just really just shows that they don't understand that corporations are basically people by transitive property.

This is done for a very good reason because not doing so allows for all the myriad abuses through the back door if corporations were declared "not people".