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

  • Monkey With A ShellEnglish
    2•3 days ago

    The company doesn’t have ‘less’ liability, it has separate liability.

    You wouldn’t expect that you would be responsible for the actions of a roommate in most cases. Creating a business entity separates the business from the person running it. The taxes are separate, the owned properties are separate, the liabilities are separate.

    Say you own a small restaurant, The building it resides in (if you owned it) is owned wholely by the company. You also own a personal residence. Now a customer comes in and suffers some injury and they sue. They would sue the business and if it all went badly for you they might take ownership of the business assets including the building it’s in. They could NOT however come take your personal residence that’s not property of the business.

    If you tried to do some shady biz and change ownership of the assets away from the company before a judgement was made then the customer could feasibly ‘pierce the veil’ as they say and include you into the suit personally.

      • Monkey With A ShellEnglish
        2•3 days ago

        Why? Because it creates a separate entity. If you where to hypothetically clone yourself, should you be responsible for the actions of the clone? Perhaps more directly, assuming you work for someone, should the owner of whatever place your work for be personally/individually responsible for your actions?

        That separation is created because otherwise nobody would ever employ anyone if their employee’s actions could get them sued personally.

        • snooggumsEnglish
          1•3 days ago

          Not all businesses, including companies, have employees. Sometimes they are just the owner(s) doing all the work.