On Wednesday 13 July 2005 12:35 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Neil Schneider as of Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:40:49AM -0700: > > Stewart Stremler said: > > > (Perhaps a second step would be to have unions automatically dissolve > > > after a period of time. Thus, a union is a means to correct the > > > abuses due to an inequity of power between management and labor. > > > Once that's been corrected, and the correction is holding, then the > > > union is no longer needed and ought to go away.) > > > > I would agree as long as corporations had to also disolve after a > > period of time. That was the original law for corporations, long > > forgotten. They had a lifetime, just like people. > > I've heard that corporations used to require a charter, but not that > they had a pre-defined lifetime. > > Interesting. > > At the end of the lifetime, the assets would be sold off and the > creditors paid off, and then the shareholders?
and all of the employees fired. Perhaps we could do the same with universities and churches :) > Hm... > > -Stewart "Unbounded anything is often problematic" Stremler boblq "Yep" -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list