Re: Corporations

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

David B. Shemano wrote:

> You see a bogeyman called a "corporation."  You are fetishing the
> corporation.  I see tens, hundreds, thousands of contracts between
> real people intended to actualize a real end.

So, when I, avoiding immiseration, get a job to work in a corporation, I
am entering in a contract over which I have any control? I can bargain
for my wage? I can bargain for my vacation? I can bargain for the
conditions under which I work? I can decide what I'm going to work on
and what the result of my work is going to be used for?

> The entity is an acknowledged legal fiction that minimizes transaction
> costs.  That is all.  "Exxon" is simply a shorthand way to describe
> thousands of real people acting in a united way, and the corporate
> form provides an expedient way of organizing those real people.

Yes, an expedient way of organizing real people for the benfit of whom?

> What disgusts you?  What is beneath contempt?  What is the fantasy?

The fantasy is yours. The disgust is mine.

Joanna

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