Looking for positives, but especially negatives. What are the pitfalls of not granting corporations the same rights as people/citizens?

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They are generally immune to manslaughter and some industries have dumb political carve outs (like firearms manufacturers having immunity to most product liability) but people’s ability to sue, i.e. a paper mill after getting luekimeia relies on corporate personhood in our current system.

    Starting over means we could actually define how companues are different in a way that does make them liable for the bad stuff instead of doing the lazy ‘treat them like a person with limited accountability’ again.

    We won’t, but it would be the best opportunity.