Tim May wrote: > >if you are a company, then going bancrupt is the equivalence of dying. > >someone threatening you - overt or implied - with driving you out of > >business is the equivalent of a murder threat, right? > > You're being foolish. explain that to the 10k people who lost a job at my hypothetical company. or the stockholders, who lost their money. on more factual terms, AFAIK corporations have a certain status in the US, almost that of a natural person. why exactly is using the term "death" foolish in this context? rtmark, for example, once made the suggestion that a corporation (not a specific one) should be sentenced to death by a court, if it commits crimes that would have resulted in a death sentence had a person done it. I'm not the first to use this expression. must by my "socialist gene". :)
