Corporate citizens my ass

This quote is from the OnTech newsletter from the New York Times:

That’s true. It is, however, hard to ignore that the fortunes of the country and its leading corporate citizens are currently going in opposite directions.
We learned on Thursday that the United States wiped out five years of economic growth in a matter of months, as my colleague Ben Casselman put it. During that period, Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook mostly raked in money hand over fist.
Mostly, this makes sense. During a pandemic, we have needed the products and services these companies provide. That does not, however, guarantee them financial success.

Corporate citizenship is a fallacy. They aren’t citizens, they’re a legal fiction promulgated to shield the owners of the corporations from the misdeeds which should be borne by the shareholders. Then the courts have turned around and granted them legal protections that should only accrue to natural persons. But what do you expect from a Judiciary wholly owned by the corporate elite and other oligarchs?

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