You see a bogeyman called a "corporation." You are fetishing the corporation. I see tens, hundreds, thousands of contracts between real people intended to actualize a real end.
So, when I, avoiding immiseration, get a job to work in a corporation, I am entering in a contract over which I have any control? I can bargain for my wage? I can bargain for my vacation? I can bargain for the conditions under which I work? I can decide what I'm going to work on and what the result of my work is going to be used for?
The entity is an acknowledged legal fiction that minimizes transaction costs. That is all. "Exxon" is simply a shorthand way to describe thousands of real people acting in a united way, and the corporate form provides an expedient way of organizing those real people.
Yes, an expedient way of organizing real people for the benfit of whom?
What disgusts you? What is beneath contempt? What is the fantasy?
The fantasy is yours. The disgust is mine.
Joanna
