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A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

— Joel Bakan The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004)

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As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

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