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Re:Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t... by tablespoon on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:23AM (#28388917)
> Yeah, seeking the limits of the law. When a human does it, we typically call them an asshole. However, when a company does it, it's totally fine.

The ideological campaign to turn pure greed into a moral virtue has been far more successful for businesses than for individuals. Probably because the millenniums of moral thought that condemn individual greed is a tough thing to displace, and human moral intuitions are less intuitive to apply to a composite entity like a business.

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Re:Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t... by Mountain_Skies on Thursday September 02, 2021 @06:44AM (#28390497)
Big businesses, especially corporations, are artificial persons. This is completely unnatural and we as human have yet to figure out how to handle dealing with such "persons". I suspect that if they were to take actual human form, in much of the world they would be driven out of town and told never to return.
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