The Corporation

  • 1st Aug 2005
  • 2 min read

I am watching a documentary “The Corporation” talking about obviously modern day companies. The chief idea being, how corporations are treated legally as a person and how it is a bad idea. First it was interesting to know that the 14th amendment to the US Constitution which made to ensure equal protection to all persons of life regardless of race is used by corporations to protect their rights as legally they are also person. Quoting Chomsky

“These are special kind of persons which are designed by law to be concerned only for their stock holders and not, say what are stake holders like the community or the workforce”

Also of interest was what would be in ideal corporation and one of the definitions given was

The Eagle, soaring clear eyed competitive prepared to strike but not vulture, noble, visionary, majestic that people can believe in and be inspired by that creates a lift that it soars.