"I’m saying the corporate system is inherently, in its structure, evil. But I am really not saying that it is evil, because, as I said previously, I don’t believe in evil. I am really just saying that it is immoral." - Uncle Ken on 12-22-14
Not wanting to quibble about semantics, but you did indeed say that corporations are both amoral and immoral. Since they obviously can't be both, lets just say that it is your assertion that corporations are a bad thing.
If I understand you correctly, you said that the main reason corporations are bad is that all they care about is making money. First of all, I assert that a corporation can't care about anything because a corporation is a collective of individuals and doesn't have a mind of its own. Each individual in the corporation contributes to the corporation's perceived personality, but the corporation itself doesn't really have a personality. Of course there's the corporate image that is put forth to the public, but that also comes from certain individuals within the corporation, not the corporation itself. If the public doesn't buy the corporate image, it will create one of its own, which becomes the corporation's reputation. Like the contrived image, this reputation may or may not accurately reflect what's really going on.
I agree that the primary purpose for which corporations exist is to make money. So what's wrong with that? If the corporation didn't exist, all those people would have to find some other way of making a living. The reason they join the corporation is that they believe it will provide them with a better opportunity to make money than they can readily find on their own. If, in the process, they run afoul of the law, that's their own fault. Like societies, corporations do not corrupt people, people corrupt corporations. In the process of making money, corporations provide goods and services for which there is a market demand. If the corporations didn't do it, Mom and Pop would. The reason that corporations displaced Mom and Pop in the marketplace is that they found a way to provide those goods and services for a lower price. If you want to drive the corporations off the face of the Earth, you need to come up with some kind of structure that provides those same goods and services for an even lower price. Another way to get rid of corporations would be to legislate them out of existence, but then you would still have to replace them with something else or the economy would collapse.
You have previously expressed your concern for all the poor people in the world. Well, what better way to alleviate poverty than to make money? If you want to confiscate and redistribute people's money, they first have to make money. If you deprive them of their ability to do this, there will be no money to confiscate and redistribute. Personally, I would rather see the poor people form their own corporations and make their own money but, either way, somebody has to make money. Well, technically, it is the government that actually manufactures the money. I suppose they could just dole it out equally to everybody, but then the money would soon lose its value. In order for money to have value, it has to be traded back and forth between people. I'm not sure why, but that's how it works.
So if corporations are so bad, what would you replace them with? Or would you rather try to rehabilitate them through legislation? There are already a lot of laws on the books that regulate corporations. Which ones would you change?
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