Point of view: Corporate psychopaths?
Faris YakobGenius Steals
Corporate personhood has a long-standing basis in law. Indeed, the idea that the corporation is a separate legal entity from the people who own it and work there is the foundation of corporate law. Companies don't automatically get the same rights as people (because they aren't people), but it starts them along a metaphorical pathway.
The idea became very divisive following a Supreme Court ruling, ironically called Citizens United, which sought to remove caps on individual political contributions, and corporations argued similar protections.
The idea that corporations are 'people' is the...