Resolution Calling to Amend the Constitution Banning Corporate Personhood

[Telarus]

Resolution Calling to Amend the Constitution Banning Corporate Personhood Introduced in Vermont
http://www.addictinginfo.org/?p=889

Damn good read.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Hardly surprising that this came out of Vermont.

It's doomed, though.

[LMNO]

Good going, Vermont.

Now stop acting like hippies and get it done.

[Jasper]

Corporate people need to go.  It's a threat to the government itself.  Profit maximizing firms have no particular reason not to overthrow the government once they're powerful enough that the benefits outweigh the costs.

[Jenne]

There's currently a show on NBC here in the US that has this idea as their premise.  It's not all that great a show, but it is interesting how they weave the "evil corporation takes over all public works" base into the storyline.  Evil corporation personhood run amok.

Oh, it's called "The Cape."

[Jenne]

Hardly surprising that this came out of Vermont.

It's doomed, though.

Also, THIS.

[LMNO]

There's currently a show on NBC here in the US that has this idea as their premise.  It's not all that great a show, but it is interesting how they weave the "evil corporation takes over all public works" base into the storyline.  Evil corporation personhood run amok.

Oh, it's called "The Cape."

I've seen ads, and wasn't impressed enough to check it out.  Something about magic clothing that give you superpowers, and carnys?

[Jenne]

There's currently a show on NBC here in the US that has this idea as their premise.  It's not all that great a show, but it is interesting how they weave the "evil corporation takes over all public works" base into the storyline.  Evil corporation personhood run amok.

Oh, it's called "The Cape."

I've seen ads, and wasn't impressed enough to check it out.  Something about magic clothing that give you superpowers, and carnys?

Yes, I blame terminal boredom and my current comic-turned-Hollywood fetish I have going on.  But, the fact they make ARK, the company that now runs the city, into this monstrosity entity that can be blamed for just about everything going wrong was interesting to me.

And of course it started out as a BIOTECH company.

[Telarus]

My girl and I are watching the Cape. I actually quite like it. It's like if they made an old-skool Adam West-as-batman low budget super hero show with today's TV effects. Some of it's hokey, some of the plot is see-through (what, you didn't think Scooby Doo is an actual Mystery show, did you?), but it's pulling off what they wanted to do with Heroes (y'know, a comic book super hero.... not Survivor: Super Hero Island).

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Corporate people need to go.  It's a threat to the government itself.  Profit maximizing firms have no particular reason not to overthrow the government once they're powerful enough that the benefits outweigh the costs.

Why overthrow it, when you can just lease it?  It's cheaper, and it leaves handy scapegoats lying around.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Corporate people need to go.  It's a threat to the government itself.  Profit maximizing firms have no particular reason not to overthrow the government once they're powerful enough that the benefits outweigh the costs.

Why overthrow it, when you can just lease it?  It's cheaper, and it leaves handy scapegoats lying around.

This is the correct corporate sponsored motorcycle!

[Requia ☣]

Ban corporate personhood: Because what we really want is to take away the corporate right to pay taxes and get sued.

[Jenne]

Ban corporate personhood: Because what we really want is to take away the corporate right to pay taxes and get sued.

Yup.  Pretty much.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ban corporate personhood: Because what we really want is to take away the corporate right to pay taxes and get sued.

Non-corporate businesses still pay taxes.

FFS.

[Luna]

Ban corporate personhood: Because what we really want is to take away the corporate right to pay taxes and get sued.

Non-corporate businesses still pay taxes.

FFS.

And get sued.

That's one of the main reasons TO incorporate, to keep one lawsuit from taking not just your business but your home and all of your personal assets.