Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker

Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by njharman on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:43AM (#13528558)

Limited liability has nothing to do with personhood. Which is very recent and very specific. Personhood is not any of the things you listed, those are features of basic corporation without personhood. Corporations worked fine for several hundred years. Granting them the rights but not the responsibilities of humans was wholly unnecessary and a mistake.

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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by bmmayer1 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:57AM (#13599787)

I think you misunderstand corporate personhood. It absolutely includes all the things I mentioned. This article[1] has a good overview of the topic which includes a quote from the US Code: "In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise—the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals."

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

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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:48AM (#13528578)

Corporations never existed without personhood; juridical personhood is a key factor was what historically distinguished corporations from earlier forms of business organization which did not create distinct legal persons.

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