Corporations as People

Comments debate and satirize the idea of corporations being treated like people or having their own emergent intelligence and behaviors, often comparing them to organisms or entities independent of their human components.

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Sample Comments

cpeterso Dec 16, 2011 View on HN

I hear corporations are "real people" these days. ;)

meeuwer Jul 28, 2023 View on HN

Indeed, it seems to be a large corporations thing.

wonthegame Aug 21, 2018 View on HN

Some corporations are more equal than others.

sitkack Jun 28, 2016 View on HN

It really sounds like you have taken the "people are corporations" concept to heart.

ranger_danger Oct 10, 2024 View on HN

you could say the same about any corporation

rb808 Jan 8, 2020 View on HN

Sounds like most corporations as well.

Natsu Apr 18, 2016 View on HN

Corporations are made of people, too. (Though in a way that somehow reminds me of Soylent green...)

TaylorAlexander Apr 27, 2023 View on HN

A metacorporation, if you will.

briandear Apr 11, 2018 View on HN

We ARE talking about corporations.

Havoc Oct 11, 2023 View on HN

All corporate-y? By becoming a big corporation