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[DancingBearly]

and slavery is illegal, how can it be legal to own a corporation? Slavery is defined as people owning other people. Can this pretzel logic help reverse this bad decision?

[Jabadoodle]

First: I'm interested in getting money (from corporations and others) out of politics. And I'm interested in seeing if there are better, more fair, more just, and just as (or more) viable ways or organizing society, money, and corporations.

Second: I have not read the specific Supreme Court ruling that gives "person hood" to corporations.

That said: You logic above is witty, but I believe it won't help because the ruling (if I'm right) did not actually make corporations into people. It said that in some limited terms, corporations are like people. If corporations were full people, we also couldn't close one down (murder it) or take it's profits (steel from it). It would also have to be allowed to cast ballots in elections.

This reminds me of this protest sign, which is also clever - yet ultimately not
gonna fly 'cause for all the talk, corporations have not be made fully into
people under the law.

http://t3.gstatic.co...PUGoFe7rgNCI2LA

[robberry]

The corporation (an "individual") employs people. They don't "own" people.

A person who "owns" a corporation "technically" works for the company.

[TakeAStepBack]

So then it does have personhood?

You just shot yourself in the foot.