There Are No Corporate Criminals in America
Because America doesn’t have corporate crime prosecutions
If (per the Gospel of St Romney), “corporations are people (my friend),” what kind of people are they? In 2003, Mark Achbar’s documentary “The Corporation,” made the compelling case that corporations are sociopaths (and hey, look, there’s a sequel!).
Ted Chiang says corporations are a procedural version of the genocidal Skynet AI that haunts the Terminator franchise:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway
Or, as Charlie Stross calls them, “Slow AIs”:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html
When I’m feeling frisky, I call corporations “immortal colony organisms that treat human beings alternately as a source of nutrients or a form of inconvenient gut flora.”
In Citizens United, the Supreme Court declared that corporations were the sort of autonomous persons that have speech rights, and then in Hobby Lobby, it said that corporations were inseparable from their founders, and not autonomous at all.
