begin quoting Neil Schneider as of Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:40:49AM -0700: > Stewart Stremler said: > > (Perhaps a second step would be to have unions automatically dissolve > > after a period of time. Thus, a union is a means to correct the > > abuses due to an inequity of power between management and labor. > > Once that's been corrected, and the correction is holding, then the > > union is no longer needed and ought to go away.) > > I would agree as long as corporations had to also disolve after a > period of time. That was the original law for corporations, long > forgotten. They had a lifetime, just like people.
I've heard that corporations used to require a charter, but not that they had a pre-defined lifetime. Interesting. At the end of the lifetime, the assets would be sold off and the creditors paid off, and then the shareholders? Hm... -Stewart "Unbounded anything is often problematic" Stremler
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