Stop mixing up corporations and humans

The UDHR (art. 17) says that “everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others”. And everybody is equal before the law, right? This idea is one of the unwritten bases of liberal capitalism. But it is wrong. I’d even call it the root of most problems of our generation.

It is wrong because it adds “as well as in association with others”. The UDHR mixes up humans and corporations.

Corporations are legal persons and the UDHR gives them human rights like owning things, trading with goods and services, entering into contract with others or introducing a law suit against them.

But corporations are not humans. They are just ideas, born out of human minds, registered in some public database, personified as legal persons. They are part of the spiritual world. Unlike humans, corporations are virtually immortal, They survive the lifetime of individual humans, and therefore can become incredibly powerful.

We can consider corporations as spirits. A spirit is an idea that exists outside of a human brain. And some of these spirits are out of control and “want” to rule the world.

There are two kinds of spirits: good and bad. A bad spirit should not have a right to property. Good spirits are those who serve all humanity, bad spirits are those who serve a small group of individuals.

If we want to avoid a catastrophe, we need to act without mercy against greedy giants. Yes, every individual human deserves mercy, but corporations don’t.