Corporations As People?

I’m annoyed at myself! I’ve talked about corporate corruption on several occasions over the year I’ve been on blogging and videomaking, and not once have I brought up the point that corporations are granted special privileges based on the claim of personhood. The reason why I’m annoyed is because the amount of times that corporations are brought up by anti-free marketeers is too numerous to count. This leads to circular reasoning within argumentation, where governments are removed from the free market only for corporations to rise up as the new tyrants.

This is fallacious because corporations are a product of the state, and thus would naturally be removed along with the state itself. The reason for this is completely obvious given that corporations are not people, and it is a strawman to claim otherwise. Corporate personhood is simply a ruse for corrupt businessmen to escape punishment for immoral business acts like corporate crime. The list of criminality is long, and here are a couple of examples:

Leftists Occupy Wall Street

We’ve reached a turning point in the present socioeconomic crisis. Dark times are looming ahead and, while I previously have said that things will get much worse, leftists are also waking up to this. As usual there is a left-right paradigm split, the right directing their protests against the FED, though this divide worries me. The occupy Wall Street protests however are showing that the left is determined to blame this whole collapse on Capitalism. While at the protests Michael Moore said “end Capitalism” when asked about ending the US Federal Reserve:

The Feminist Agenda

Many disputes occur when the agenda of Feminism is brought up. Does Feminism have an agenda? What does it aim to achieve? Has it achieved those goals? Does it still have a way to go? The main argument that most pro-Feminists will agree with is that Feminism was about equality. It aimed to correct the perceived oppression that men have directed at women in history. The theory is that men have conspired directly, or indirectly (depending on which “brand” of Feminism you align with) to keep women down, thus meaning that women have failed to reach their full potential, also meaning that men created a patriarchal society that only benefited them.

What complete and utter bull! For starters men have had more than their fair share of “oppression” to deal with in history, not least the burden of being a provider for women and children, working in jobs that women wouldn’t dream of doing, even now that they are “emancipated.” Men always have, and still do, the most arduous jobs that women wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. Women don’t work in mines, on oil rigs, fight on the front line, work as meat packers, trash collectors, and all the unclean, unsafe jobs that result in over 90% of on-the-job fatalities being men.