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bbarnett on Jan 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to reduce workforce by 12k

No, corporations are not people, and legalities which apply in very specific circumstances and not relevant.

Do you, as a person, have a CTO by law? Have your value listed on a stock exchange? Can you be sold? Dissolved at the whim of the state?

A corporation is only a person in a very, very narrow set of conditions.

bnegreve on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

Corporations are granted the right to sue me. That enough for me to expect that they show some level of human decency.

If they behave like psychopaths in a systematic way, I don't think they should be granted that right.

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