I don’t know why you are downvoted. I find it pretty terrifying that people are thinking about companies as if they were conscious beings while they are only a complex mix of the people working for it who may or may not have random amounts of power.

Companies aren’t people, they are social constructions which can, or not, have positive or negative impact on the society but ultimately live for making money. And I don’t mean this as an insult, it’s just that if you want to work with other people with other goals than making money, a company is just the wrong structure. I think it’s crucial to stop that belief that companies have souls. Companies souls are what is wrote in their status, nothing more, nothing less.

Same. Corporations are just constructs that shield their owners from liabilities.

Generally speaking, these constructs are created to solve problems an individual may have trouble with.

The constructs have no agency. They must act through people and are directed by people, but are not people.

Perhaps we should treat corporations like people and jail them, like we do people.

What would that look like?

Freeze all assets for a period of time? Or, since they are essentially shields for those directing them, maybe remove the shield part for X period of time...