Of course, the limited liability corporation is a way between moving responsibility away from persons by preventing the owners from being sued personally. Quite ironic.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, michael perelman wrote:
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>> There is a difference between abolishing corporations and abolishing
>> corporate personhood.
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> IIUC, legally speaking, a person is any entity that can sign contracts.
> There is a distinction between "natural" persons (flesh and blood) and all
> other kinds of persons. But if you abolish the legal personhood of
> corporations, you abolish their ability to sign contracts, and thus to
> function.
>
> Michael
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