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by kazinator 4050 days ago
Corporations are not people. They are arrays of people.

Specifically, they are C-style arrays of people.

In C, if you try to qualify (const or volatile) an array, it's actually the element-type that gets qualified.

(The straight syntax doesn't support it at all; the above applies if you try to create an typedef for the array type and then use it as a declaration specifier, side by side with qualifiers.)

In the same way that qualifiers on C arrays slide down to the elements, certain attributes, including responsibilities, have to shift from corporations to the member individuals.