Comment by toast0
> If corporations are people, then how can they be bought or sold considering the 13th amendment?
Sports players are people, but their service is bought and sold by teams. Is that slavery, too?
> If corporations are people, then how can they be bought or sold considering the 13th amendment?
Sports players are people, but their service is bought and sold by teams. Is that slavery, too?
My argument is created to test the original "corporations are people" legality in common law.
- slavery, the owning of people, is prohibited by the 13th amendment. - the law of the land is that corporations are a type of legal person based on the famous ruling based on the 14th amendment - corporations are bought and sold, and owned by shareholders. Can they be people if this is so?
obviously there is a problem here with all of the contradictions involved, but thats the point of my argument. The legal system picks and chooses the desired outcome, and doesn't actually pay attention to the words involved.
Slaves generally don't get to choose not to participate. Sports players are as much wage slaves as Hollywood actors or Walmart greeters, albeit with much shorter runways to comfortable lifestyles.