"...After all, corporations are people too.  We shouldn’t want to hurt their feelings…I wonder what gender they are…
Big corporations in big industries get the benefits of being people without the responsibilities that come with those benefits.  They can steal and kill, but as an entity, they don’t go to jail.  They’re too big to jail. Their liability is, by definition, limited and mitigated.  It works the same way with their public risk/private profit profiles:  All of the gain, with no downside to the entity or its controllers.  A corporation can even be spared blame for acts of sedition, depraved indifference to human life, grand theft, willful negligence, and manslaughter.  He just brazenly does the crime, and swaggers off, knowing he ain’t gonna be doin’ no time!  That’s a real man right there!  (Hey, he’s a motherf- .  Shut your mouth!  I’m talkin’ ‘bout a corporation!)
I guess they’re male.  
I was egging on corporations in this country just recently, to get off their asses and start being risk-takers again.  Sure, there is a lot of risk out there, but Capitalism and entrepreneurism were never about a sure thing.  The GOP says the risk is due to over-regulation and high taxes.  The truth is that the tax rates are lower than they were under Bush.  And if over-regulation was a barrier to anything except a profit percentage point, why wasn’t Bush’s economy anything more than horseshit?  It’s truly a shame:  a lost decade.  With the right strategy and vision, and economic plan, we could’ve boomed, especially after 9/11.  You want to exploit 9/11 for your own political gains?  You should’ve exploited it for the good of our entire country when you had the chance.  Instead, you squandered the good will and the political and social capital, and just fucked it all up.  And now We The People are to blame for everything?  Fuck you!
He ain’t heavy, he’s my corporation…
The new corporate culture and the pro-business judicial environment allow big corporations to game every part of the system.  A great example is found in giant retailers contracting out millions of warehouse labor positions, instead of expanding their own real - W2 - workforce.  The money they save on employee benefits is substantial, and deserved.  This is Capitalism, after all.  But the Supreme Court has held that liability does not cross lines of corporate entities, and various stores among the same large corporation; let alone different companies altogether.  Those out-sourced contract workers are a great example of all of this.  They labor under the banner and logo of the prime contractor:  the big name retailer, always a huge household name we all know.  And it’s not as if that big name company is out of the picture.  The contract workers regularly get visits and pep talks directly from managers of the big name retailer, even though they work for XYZ Contracting Corp, or some unknown entity like that.  So, legally speaking, there is a lot of mixing of entities and crossing of lines going on.  Historically, this mixing and crossing of lines opens doors to all kinds of liability.  But the current Supreme Court won’t let that happen.  And of course, in the rush for profit maximization at any cost, the lowly contract employees get abused and overworked.  And these days, they can’t do anything about it…like back in 1910.   This means that most large companies can act with impunity and feel very secure.  And still, they complain and lobby for more protections; and as an extra sand-kick in the face, tort reform continues to be a disingenuous GOP talking point that will save the economy.  Relax, my corporate brother from another conglomerate:  Nobody seems to be piercing any corporate veils these days.  Plus, mom always liked you better...."