Comments on: Freedom vs. Markets http://freetheanimal.com/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html Expressing Our Primal Genes for Lean Health, Vitality and Attractiveness Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:07:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Richard Nikoley http://freetheanimal.com/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7674 Richard Nikoley Wed, 11 May 2005 14:25:13 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7674 <p>Hey, "Common Sense." I deleted your insulting comments. Feel free to repost if you can make a civil point. I'm the only one, here, who gets to toss around words like "stupid" at people; but even for myself, that will generally be in the context of a blog entry, not a comment.</p> Hey, "Common Sense." I deleted your insulting comments. Feel free to repost if you can make a civil point. I'm the only one, here, who gets to toss around words like "stupid" at people; but even for myself, that will generally be in the context of a blog entry, not a comment.

]]> By: A http://freetheanimal.com/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7673 A Mon, 09 May 2005 17:05:37 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7673 <p>Nice post. Corporations rock. Everything they do is logical. </p> <p>-A</p> Nice post. Corporations rock. Everything they do is logical.

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]]> By: elijah http://freetheanimal.com/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7672 elijah Mon, 09 May 2005 16:43:46 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7672 <p>nice blog, clean and easy to read, typepad seems to be the way to go</p> nice blog, clean and easy to read, typepad seems to be the way to go

]]> By: Kyle Bennett http://freetheanimal.com/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7671 Kyle Bennett Mon, 09 May 2005 13:01:34 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2005/05/freedom_vs_mark.html#comment-7671 <p>I'm bothered by the term "legal construct", as if corporations spring up from nothing because the state-god willed them into existence. As you say, it is a complex heriarchy of contracts, etc., which really represent agreements. It is those agreements that are the essential characteristic. The legal "construct" can only come afterward, and is merely a recognition or formalizing of them. </p> <p>The real question is what rights this entity has. There is no basis I've ever heard for why it should have either more or fewer rights than any individual within it. </p> <p>In practice they often have more or fewer legal rights - not because of their nature as a corporation, but because of the nature of those outside the corporation who create legal rights. If there is a problem with corporations (and there is), then that is the source of the problem. <br /> </p> I'm bothered by the term "legal construct", as if corporations spring up from nothing because the state-god willed them into existence. As you say, it is a complex heriarchy of contracts, etc., which really represent agreements. It is those agreements that are the essential characteristic. The legal "construct" can only come afterward, and is merely a recognition or formalizing of them.

The real question is what rights this entity has. There is no basis I've ever heard for why it should have either more or fewer rights than any individual within it.

In practice they often have more or fewer legal rights – not because of their nature as a corporation, but because of the nature of those outside the corporation who create legal rights. If there is a problem with corporations (and there is), then that is the source of the problem.

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