In Delaware, Corporations Can Now Vote. Are We Insane? | Common Dreams
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In the United States of America, this is what it has come to.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/65680179

Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” — are today voting in elections for everything from the mayor and town council to referendums on corporate taxes and limits on corporate behavior.

What could possibly go wrong?

There are, after all, more corporations than people in Delaware. They can now decide who’s going to run the government, what the laws are, and — through their votes to elect humans who’ll take corporate money to do what corporations want (something else that corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized) — even what regulations companies must follow and what limits there are on their behavior.

  • DancingBear@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    Can I buy a parking space in this county or city with my LLC and vote there now as the ceo?

    Or do all of my workers have a say in the vote my corporation casts?

    Edit grammar.

          • DancingBear@midwest.social
            1·
            2 days ago

            I guess now every homeowner has to create an LLC so they can get two votes as well? Or three or four?

            And the homeless people just need to start popping in front of city hall I guess.

            • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
              2·
              2 days ago

              i don’t get what you are getting at. i don’t think the government would let us easily do that, and i doubt companies would give workers a voice in that vote if they could help it at all.

              this kind of thing looks like lobbying for power by corporations, and the state will enforce it that way.

              • DancingBear@midwest.social
                1·
                2 days ago

                If we own a home and sell our home to our LLC can we get two votes instead of one. We still own the LLC so our LLC gets a vote and so do you and I.

                I don’t live in Delaware, but if our LLC does can my LLC own the home and vote here

                • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
                  3·
                  2 days ago

                  i don’t think it matters, they wouldn’t let people do that if it became a problem. even then, homeownership is a high bar that would put more votes into conservatives anyway, at least over here.