I don't think we need to be talking about the personhood of the corporation. I think we should be talking about the corporatization of the person. Let's face it. The bureaucratic processes that uphold the sanctity of corporate governance and the oligarcic power structure will never be wiped away with the personhood of the corporation, and always, it is the individual who must interface with the corporate structure by its rules rather than the other way around.
The bureaucratic interface of the individual exists within the services offered by the corporate entities which, presumably, were brought into existence to serve the individual. The corporation serves the individuals who inhabit it by facilitating long term survival goals based on serving the useful function of providing some value to another group of individuals external to the workings of the corporation. The corporation is corrupt only if in serving value it sacrifices values to remain profitably in its business.
How many clothes lines manufacturers would there be if clothes lines were perfect? If they didn't stretch. If they didn't get dirty. If the poles didn't sink, or lean or rot. If they didn't eventually fall out of the track on the wheels at each end. If they never needed to be replaced then once the market became saturated clothes lines would only keep pace with housing starts, eventually dwindling in each market served and ultimately forcing mergers for economic survival as markets became dependent on the ability to be financially secure in maximizing profit with performance.
Transporation, being what it is, and in the Western World the cheaper alternative to decentralized production, performs a vital...
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