how should the world’s economy develop? what companies should be developed? how should the profit be distributed? should it be illegal for companies to make a profit at all?

(note that i think that it is generally unavoidable that some companies make some profit, the grey area on the image of the supply-demand diagram (or rather quantity-price diagram) is the profit, and that would only be zero if all companies have exactly the same production costs per unit.)

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    23 days ago

    The point is, we should punish the behavior, and ignore the structure that people keep focusing on.

    It’s stupid to fight against the way companies are structured. Unless they do highly regulated work, then we can mandate specifically how they can look like. But it’s stupid to mandate how they can’t be.

    Also, people like to point just the second half of it to dishonestly claim we shouldn’t do anything. But dishonest people claiming something doesn’t make it wrong, they are perfectly capable to saying true things too.

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      22 days ago

      It’s stupid to fight against the way companies are structured.

      You do realize the main aim of incorporation is to shield the officers from liability right?

      The structure is how they stay out of jail. How, when we go to freeze assets there’s nothing there. The structure is an integral part of the crime.

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        22 days ago

        Go take another look at what limited liability actually means. Because you don’t seem to have understood the concept.

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          22 days ago

          I definitely did nothing to deserve that tone. Either engage and explain or kindly eff the eff off.

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            22 days ago

            What can I say? The concepts on your comment are wrong, none of it works this way, and even deciding to talk about liability limitation in a criminal context is wrong.

            You didn’t understand what it’s about.