A Boring Dystopia

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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"We've always done it that way" is not a great reason to keep doing something wrong, though.

If it doesn't breathe, eat, talk, and feel, it's not a person. Calling it one doesn't make it true.

To be clear this isn't aimed at you, I'm pretty sure you're not 200 years old and didn't come up with the original idea.

[–] shalafi 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The legal notion of corporate "personhood" is in the very first words of US law:

the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;

Congress can choose to break this.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1