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Originally Posted by kennyc
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You gave me two sentences to work with. In the first, you stated you disagreed with my claim that we benefit by the existence and actions of corporations without providing any arguments or food for thought. In the second sentence, you claimed that large companies are substantively different from corporations. Again without any supporting arguments.
After I question one of your two sentences, you say, "That's not the point." As though one of your two sentences was to be ignored. And as support for the other, you provide a link to a 2+ hour documentary. But two can play at that game, and I can provide counter-links that could consume vast amounts of your time for you to investigate. Not only in considering the link, but then searching out and examining other sources to provide support or arguments against the original link. That is, if you wanted to be thorough rather than having your ideas spoon-fed into your brain.
Fundamentally, though, I'd point out that no matter what device you are using to access this forum, it was manufactured by a corporation. And the data did not arrive at your doorstep without going through routers and servers created by corporations, and the odds are extremely likely that the provider you pay for receiving your data bits also is a corporation. Your breakfast products were almost certainly produced by a corporation, and sold to you at a business that is also incorporated. Your mode of transport was made by a corporation, unless you walk everywhere, in which case it is likely your footwear was. Even your very argument that I need to educate myself using a link requiring me to go to YouTube, a site owned by a corporate entity known as Google. Thus, I think I can state pretty authoritatively that you benefit on a daily basis from the existence of corporations.
We can hypothesize a world where corporations did not exist and only companies were permitted, and speculate as to what inventions or products such a system might create, but all such arguments would be based on theory and not practice since we cannot examine a large-scale inventive economy that does not have the legal idea of a corporation undergirding it.