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Re: Corporations



--- joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David B. Shemano wrote:

> 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?

Exactly Joanna...cui bono?  The ever perplexing
question in class society.

Solid,
Mike B)

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