Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
by pdonis on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:50PM
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> if the constitution proscribes something that would definitely benefit the state, then it is the constitution which is wrong.
We already have a process for dealing with this: amend the Constitution. But unless and until it gets amended, it is the supreme law of the land, and we can't just ignore it because we think something it currently proscribes would "benefit the state".
(I also have a problem with "benefit the state" as opposed to "benefit we the people". The state itself is established for the benefit of we the people; it is not a separate entity with separate interests apart from ours.)
We already have a process for dealing with this: amend the Constitution. But unless and until it gets amended, it is the supreme law of the land, and we can't just ignore it because we think something it currently proscribes would "benefit the state".
(I also have a problem with "benefit the state" as opposed to "benefit we the people". The state itself is established for the benefit of we the people; it is not a separate entity with separate interests apart from ours.)