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		parineum 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fata... > Only when it comes to rights. "Corporations are people" means a corporation is people, not a corporation is a person. People have rights, whether they are acting through a corporation or not. That's what Citizens United determined. I hope you think about who misled you to thinking that "corporations are people" meant a corporation is a person and trust them a little less.

lblume 7 months ago [–]

In most jurisdictions, a corporation is a juridical person[1]. When not explicitly mentioning natural persons, whether a corporation is a "person" is thus ambiguous.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juridical_person

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