Ayn Rand is a bitch. I'm not a libertarian.
I would rather my dad be made as whole as possible.
Not surprisingly, very inconsistent..
Using the british definition?
Corporate personhood came to be because it was a necessity for business associations to take on risks. Risking everything you have to own a business would have been problematic for many business owners. The corporate legal form arose out of the necessity of divorcing the assets of an individual from the assets of a business association. It's no accident that human productivity suddenly soared when favorable business organization concepts were introduced and legally accepted.
Because corporate personhood enabled innovation, which enabled my liberation from the fields of subsistence and the development of modern technology. That has nothing to do with free speech.
Nothing in this post has anything to do with corporate personhood other than the words are in your post.
In this post, of yours, that is certainly true. In your original post? It is certainly not.
And saying because corporate personhood existed during the time frame is the cause, can't be refuted because you can't get rid of the existence. But existence doesn't prove causality. The same way humans exist during changing climate which happened before humans, and their insistence back then we didn't exist so it wasn't us, but we exist now, so it is us.
I disagree. The effect of human behavior is obvious over time. That's why some humans, analyzing such patterns, proposed that there could be a more efficient means of regulating human behavior. And they were right. It was far, far, far more efficient. People today--the poorest people in this country--have far, far, far more than the people 200 years ago could possibly have imagined. The surplus reflects a reduction of business risk, which enabled greater output at lower prices.
Yet the Great Depression happened because of corporate monopolies and trusts, who had little liability which lead to the Glass Seagull Act. Ever since its repeal in 1999, we've slowly been going down hill again.
The Great Depression didn't happen because of corporations, and even if it did, that event didn't ultimately undermine all of the gains I just talked about, so your focus on it makes no sense. Even counting the depression the corporate personhood period was probably far more economically stable than past periods.
Prior to corporate personhood, if you wanted to do business you could easily be 100% liable for everything that happened. An accident could totally destroy you and deprive you of everything you had. How do you think people reacted to this? They did less business, avoiding the risk. When the corporation was divorced from its owners, it became possible to do business without having to worry about losing everything you have and being unable to support yourself or your family. Economic activity and productivity skyrocketed.
Let's see.......... You claim "scientists" determined this, then when someone expresses an opinion, not even contrary to your silly claim, you wish death upon them. Yep, definitely a troll.
Sad that you think the solution to all your woes is to give the government more power over you. There is no innate "goodness" in government.
Wait........you want a deal where you can commit crime on a massive scale without consequences, yet worry about joining "the dark side". Wouldn't wishing to commit all that crime mean you had already joined "the dark side"?
I am saddened that so many think "more government" is the solution to the ills of this world. "Government" is the entity that sends out millions of soldiers to kill and destroy, that oppresses the people en-masse, that is capable of slaughter by the millions, all to protect their "sovereignty".
What did you do with Red?
Red has moods