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postmateDumbass@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

If corporations are people, are shareholders slaveowners?

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If corporations are people, are shareholders slaveowners?

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re only people when it’s convenient for the voting/election rights of the rich people who own them…so actually a lot like slaves.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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      Amen

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    whip crack

    “Your name is X now!”

    • Yer Ma@lemm.ee
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      It’s spelled X Æ A-12

    • probablynaked@lemmy.world
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      fucking lol

  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    Wait, anybody rich enough to take this to the Supreme Court for shits and giggles?

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    What about corporations that own other companies? Or merges/acquisitions (cannibalism)? Maybe we should take the whole corporations are people to the natural conclusion. It would at least make it interesting for a while.

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    Yes.

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    deleted by creator

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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      🤫 If we don’t talk about it, we won’t start to question other parts of our lives that feel icky.

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    Who said they were people? I’m out of touch again aren’t I

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

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    They’re not people, they’re cancer to society.

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