Corporation

A traditional corporate entity is a collective of people joined together by articles of incorporation in pursuit of profit. Although it may be comprised of individual parts such as directors, officers, and shareholders, a corporation is a legal entity in and of itself. This was determined by Santa Clara County vs Southern Pacific Railway in the U.S. Supreme court in 1886. This precedent setting case was a dispute over a railway route and determined whether the U.S. Supreme Court identified a private corporation as a “natural person” under the U.S. Constitution and therefore entitled to protection under the Bill of Rights.

Corporate oligopolies sell us our food.

Corporates oligopolies own our media.

Behaviour

The prime driver of corporate entities is self survival, the second, 99% of the time a fiduciary duty to pursue profit for the financial gain of shareholders. These paramount, binding principles have been anthropomorphised with some authors arguing that corporate entities have the characteristics of a psychopath. However, corporates are not humans, they are inert machines, much like a gun, its behaviour is only defined by the intention behind it.

Research has found people with narcissistic traits tend to get promoted 39% faster in their progression to CEO and that there are at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population . The importance of this fact is emphasised by the knowledge that psychopaths, at around 1% of the adult population, are reported to be responsible for about 50 % of all serious crimes and constitute 20% of (North American) prison populations.