Corporation

A traditional corporate entity is a collective 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 US Supreme court in 1886. In essence, this case was a dispute over a railway route in the US and determined whether the 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.

Figure 1. Corporations are legally people!

Behaviour

Figure 2. Corporate oligopolies feed us.

The prime driver of all corporate entities is self-survival. The second, is their fiduciary duty to pursue revenue for the financial gain of employees and shareholders. These paramount, binding principles gives corporations a machine like quality which if it was a natural person would meet the diagnostic criteria for psychopathy. These general traits of corporations are compounded by the fact that people with narcissistic traits tend to get promoted 39% faster in their progression to CEO resulting in at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population.

Why is that so bad? They get the job done after all!

Psychopathic behaviour is bad, for everyone, as they only amount to 1% of the adult population, but are reported to be responsible for about 50 % of all serious crimes and constitute 20% of (North American) prison populations.

Figure 3. Corporates oligopolies write our media.

Corporate Take Over

Figure 4. Corporate oligopolies make our cars.

Many new businesses have started with the idea of changing the status quo,.

This example, alongside the more famous removals "Do No Evil" from Google's manifesto highlights how there is a creeping need in traditional organisations towards corporatism. To resolve this issue any initial Tenets that describe the operations of an organisation need to be in read only format.