FM Corporations/ businesses/ entitities
Sean Lynch
seanl at literati.org
Thu Aug 4 15:22:47 PDT 2016
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:41 PM juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:51:30 +1000
> Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
>
>
> > > even if those institutions are entirely
> > > voluntary. I can imagine sets of institutions that would allow
> > > corporations in a similar sense to how they exist now, i.e. limited
> > > liability and some form of "personhood."
> >
> > 'limited liability' means that the owners of the company cannot be
> > personally sued.
>
>
> Yes. And the idea that a libertarian society or a truly free
> market is going to copy mercantilistic devices from the 'ancien
> regime' is unwarranted.
>
I'm not sure it's more unwarranted than the assumption that mercantilistic
devices are always the wrong ones.
> I'm not surprised that Sean said that though, since Sean has a
> rather 'naive' view about current fascist 'institutions' like
> apple, facebook, uber, the tor project and other jewels from
> the establishment's crown.
>
My view has been slowly shifting toward a more left anarchist one. But it
can only go so far before I have to quit my job at Google to avoid feeling
like too much of a hypocrite.
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