Agreed. But how?
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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*better than people.
Actual people suffer repercussions from crimes, including penalties that inhibit their ability to earn money - while corporations have a layer of protection real people don’t have that makes it generally illegal to prevent them from making money. Corporations, even when they commit murder (corporate or human) face the equivalent of misdemeanours, simple fines, or are expected to punish themselves.
We never started. Laws did, because the government ceased to be "by the people, for the people". We have to fix that first.
*except for the death penalty. We should absolutely be dissolving companies with a track record of illegal activity or ones that effectively kill people for profit.
Indeed. They’re not really treated as people: all protections, no consequences.
I mean we never should have started and its well past time to stop which should be before we started.
For the curious, Amy Westervelt runs the podcast drilled, which does unbelievably incredible reporting on climate change and fossil fuel corporations.
I seriously cannot recommend her work enough, it's spellbinding.
I used to listen to this.
Last episode from June 3rd 2025, afaics.
Is there (going to be) newer content?
Thanks!
Especially taking into account that corporations never treated us as people.
We need to start fully treating them like people. The Reich wing is pushing for the death penalty, great, Plantir and Nestle and the like can be the first to be executed.
Right. First we execute them all, then we stop treating them like people.
We have this tool, let's use it for the one worthwhile use it has before destroying it.
Clawback bullshit case defences, but also clawback bullshit tax defences.