Corporate Money = Free Speech
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009I don’t understand how this is hard to figure out.
- Corporations potentially live forever, but have no concern for the future past next quarter profits.
- Corporate interest is pure self interest - there is no such thing as a corporate fellow man.
- Corporations don’t have children or grandchildren, and they have no concern for the well being of ours.
- Corporations don’t experience love, grief, remorse, empathy, or any other emotion.
- Corporate boards are made up of people, but are compelled by law to act in the financial interest of the shareholders, and virtually forbidden to consider broad human interests other than financial gain.
- Shareholders drive all of this, because they only care about short term profits - the only interest of ownership is financial gain. When the stock is sold the relationship stops - therefore the stock holders have no long term interest in corporate health, or the consequences of corporate activity other than as it relates to profit.
Corporations simply are not humans - they are soulless constructs created mostly for the purpose of generating profit for the share holders. If someone proposed that computers had the right to freedom of speech it would be laughable - but they have no money.
The people who work for and own corporations absolutely have every right to freedom of speech - if we extend that constitutional right to corporate constructs which already control our economy they will grow to control our government entirely.
Can’t we see that happening already?
