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bbda49a0 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @43d7c4ea 
Does the forgiveness apply to the directors of the company being taken over?
Or just to the buyer.
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b8de67a3 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b1e188c5 

Its a good question... but the implication would be anyone still working for the company as they would now be part of the 'new' owners.... essentially, the ne owners could throw ex-employees of the old firm under the bus, which might raise an interesting set of incentives around mergers/sales
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1effd4fc | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @43d7c4ea @b1e188c5 

IMO  - Making companies a legal entity may  turn out to be a terminal move for humanity. 

It gave corporations the rights of ownership, and right to employ people to serve it's ends,  without any real level of culpability. 

Companies are amoral entities, with no conscience, no morality, and driven by pure profit. 

It's speculative of course,  private capitalism might had also brought humanity to the brink of extinction. 

But I don't think so.
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b8de67a3 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f037c6c5 @b1e188c5 

If you've not read/seen it, I think you'd enjoy Joel Bakan's The Corporation (book or film) where he presents a psychoanalysis of the corporate person
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1effd4fc | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @43d7c4ea @b1e188c5 

That sounds fun