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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts) Wed Feb 17, 2016, 08:37 PM Feb 2016

Do corporations have souls? And at what age of development do they become viable?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Do corporations have souls? And at what age of development do they become viable? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2016 OP

I wonder if Antonin is in heaven having a beer with a corp now. randys1 Feb 2016 #1

We must remember his last words on this earth Xipe Totec Feb 2016 #3

The Answer is Simple. Xipe Totec Feb 2016 #2

Good questions; too bad they are chapdrum Feb 2016 #4

randys1

(16,286 posts)

1. I wonder if Antonin is in heaven having a beer with a corp now.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 08:39 PM

Feb 2016

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

3. We must remember his last words on this earth

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 08:41 PM

Feb 2016

Argle bargle.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

2. The Answer is Simple.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 08:39 PM

Feb 2016

Or, so they think.

chapdrum

(930 posts)

4. Good questions; too bad they are

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 09:25 PM

Feb 2016

conveniently irrelevant.

We are to treat corporations as if they are immutable laws of nature.

So in effect, we are helpless before them.

Even if "Citizens United" is overturned, the entire issue of whether corporations are ultimately helpful or harmful will remain.

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