commander@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agoCorporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge saysnews.bloomberglaw.comexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up60·1 month agoIf companies can vote, have free speech rights, and are people then why is it legal for one company to own another? Isn’t that slavery?
minus-squareSeaguy05@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·1 month agoI also never see companies go to jail.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 month agoBold of you to assume slavery is illegal in America. Every “prisoner witha job” in a for-profit prison is a victim of the 13th amendment.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat assumes a corporation can be convicted of a crime.
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·1 month agoBold of you to make the same exact comment made on Lemmy every single time slavery is mentioned.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoAbsolutely fair lmao, I was braindead and cranky at the time.
If companies can vote, have free speech rights, and are people then why is it legal for one company to own another? Isn’t that slavery?
I also never see companies go to jail.
Bold of you to assume slavery is illegal in America. Every “prisoner witha job” in a for-profit prison is a victim of the 13th amendment.
That assumes a corporation can be convicted of a crime.
Bold of you to make the same exact comment made on Lemmy every single time slavery is mentioned.
Absolutely fair lmao, I was braindead and cranky at the time.