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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2262 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to Buy a House the Wall Street Way

Comes down to corporate incentives, doesn't it?

A corporation's only incentive is money. Short term, long term, whatever. You form a corporation in order to enjoy its profit structure. You then proceed to externalize everything not related to profit on anyone and everyone available. Saint Milton himself said it this way: Corporations have to do everything to maximize profit within "the rules" and if those rules don't protect people from corporations, it's proof that people didn't really want to be protected.

A community, on the other hand, has many incentives: Community well-being. Traffic management. A clean environment. Low crime. A stable population. Community ties. All sorts of things that cut into the profit margins of large corporations.

So really, socialism.