Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court made the “personhood” of corporations a legal reality. Reified economic processes have all the rights of flesh-and-blood human beings. As I write this, an unprecedented oil spill is turning the Gulf of Mexico into a toxic cesspool—an ecological nightmare created by one of these reified persons.
If Mary Shelley were writing today, her monster would be listed on the Fortune 500.
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