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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/16/25 15:45, Jerry Leichter wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">...Businesses undertake obligations and have to be held liable to those obligations. You don't get liability without specific identifiable human beings held to account....
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">I agree with everything you say, except for this little bit. You don't need a human being to be able to incur debt; you need a pot of money (or other resources). Corporations aren't human beings, but they incur debt all the time - and the very purpose of a limited liability corporation is to block that debt from being transferred to the (human) owners of the corporation (in all but very unusual circumstances).
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<p>TBH, I am honestly skeptical that corporations whose stakeholders
are anonymous - or even just anonymous to the public - are a good
idea. In terms of product or service liability, freely available
corporate names get registered and then used up like tissues, and
factories making shoddy goods just change the setting of a machine
to start stamping different corporate names on them. <br>
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<p>I do not want to replace a defective widget with another widget
purchased from the same shyster and made in the same factory under
a different corporate name. When someone fails to provide
quality, they should acquire an actively negative reputation, and
negative reputations should follow individual human beings, not
disappear in a puff of legal smoke when those human beings start
pretending to be a different company.<br>
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<p>Yes, you can use a corporation or pot of money as 'stakes' in
place of personal liability. But then you need to assure that a
particular asset isn't oversubscribed and serving as liability
backstop for many times its value in debt, or you get a Ponzi
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Bear</span></p>
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