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    dothedewHamilton Nolan
    9/22/14 5:45pm

    Personally I'd like to meet the 3% in the developed markets who do not think corporations have to much influence over government, but who nevertheless have an unfavorable view of corporations.

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      AdamJohnsonNYCdothedew
      9/22/14 5:48pm

      I don't think CVS has too much influence over the government but I still hate them with the heat of a thousand suns.

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      dothedewdothedew
      9/22/14 5:49pm

      But I do think it is strange to ask people whether they have favorable or unfavorable views of a legal structure. I assume the people who were answering were thinking of powerful multinational corporations, but I can't tell from this piece. Maybe they should have asked them for favorable/unfavorable views of LLCs. I wonder if the answers would have been different.

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    Genius of NazarethHamilton Nolan
    9/22/14 5:43pm

    Emergers & acquisitions.

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      Godmoney76Hamilton Nolan
      9/22/14 6:30pm

      Wisdom comes suddenly. (old saying)

      Well the more experience we as Americans get the more I realize Corps. are souless beasts who only know one mantra..............MORE, MORE MORE, MORE MOOOOOOOORRREEEE.

      Thomas Jefferson in fact had a quote that sums up the reality of Corps.

      "The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

      or this one

      "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

      Corporations by their very nature are anti-human. The day we made owners of companies non-liable was the day we handed over our country to money. How do you hold a company accountable that has no ownership? The answer is you don't and that's the point from a lawyers perspective.

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        iElvis Found Trump's Tax Returns Too Late to Save GawkerHamilton Nolan
        9/22/14 6:11pm

        You left out the WSJ's subhead:

        Takers in Obama's America Too Stupid to Know What's Good for Them

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          TheDataHamilton Nolan
          9/22/14 5:45pm

          Predictable data.

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            TheBlackGuyDidItHamilton Nolan
            9/22/14 6:28pm

            You work for a corporation, dipshit.

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              Cherith CutestoryHamilton Nolan
              9/22/14 6:06pm

              No one knows the ins and outs of life in a corporate-dominated society as well as the residents of America and other highly developed affluent nations. That's probably why they trust corporations less than anyone.

              But no one knows the ins and outs of life dominated by slow development and little capital growth like residents of many emerging markets. They are as expert in their own reality as we are in ours.

              Corporations do bring innovation and growth. Badly needed innovation and growth for some people. And once established they do need to be checked rather than allowed to run amok ending in self-destruction and destruction of others. Neither is wrong.

              Even a Marxist knows you have to have a bourgeois cycle before you can have a proletarian cycle.

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