Comment by mystraline
6 hours ago
A company is a ship of Theses. Someone can die, and theyre replaced within 3 days. A new hire takes their place within a month (or used to). And legally, the comapny's sole responsibility is "make money for shareholders".
An analysis of 'what a company is', is fair to compare it to the most laser-focused sociopath.
But your false point is trying to say 'Since humans run a company, its human ethics and just humans'. And what we have is demonstrably not human-like.
The 2003 documentary film 'The Corporation' does a deep dive as why you are wrong, in regards to falsely equivocating humans to a corporation. The worst of the worst behaviors of sociopathic humans get selected more and more, all in the name of money.
> And legally, the comapny's sole responsibility is "make money for shareholders".
"the philosophy of putting shareholder profits over all else is a matter of ideology which is not grounded in American law or tradition"
https://www.salon.com/2012/04/04/the_shareholder_fallacy/
This remains a matter of active debate, and there is no law that requires or enshrines it. It's a legitimate opinion to hold, that a company should maximize shareholder returns, but it is not in any way a requirement to do so.
Here's a recent study on the matter: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/12/the-costs-of-weak...
Note that if shareholder primacy were the law of the land, this study could never have even occurred.