At 03:51 PM 7/13/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
>um, partly yes.
>the rights of businesses are completely artificial. a biz is an
>artifical entity that doesn't have any existence aside from paperwork
>(the property it owns is "real", but that doesn't make the business any
>more real than the existence of churches proves the existence of god).
>as such they have no "natural" and "inaliable" rights, but only those
>artificial rights granted to them by the local government. it just
>happens that they've managed to lobby most govs into giving them a whole
>bunch of rights.
You're incorrect. Business are things that people do. Nothing artificial
needed.
Corporations are artificial entities that exist on paper and
only have those rights arbitrarily granted by governments,
so the government could decide to grant them lesser sets of rights
in return for their corporate privileges.
But if you run a store, without hiding it behind a corporation,
there may be a sign out front saying "Tom's Widget Shop",
but that business is something you're running, with your rights.
If you've got partners, and it's "Tom and Alice and Bob's Widget Shop",
the business is still something you're doing together,
with the rights all three of you have. Still real, nothing artificial.
In many places, governments require you to have a license to do business,
but that's just because they can get money that way, and can help their
friends
by restricting their friends' competition. It's not compatible with
natural rights, but most governments are well-armed enough that they win
anyway.
Thanks!
Bill
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