Corporate Personhoodlums 0
Barbara Ehrenreich, writing at the Guardian, considers the personhood of Walmart in the light of the sex discrimination lawsuit against Walmart:
So if Walmart is indeed a person, it is a person without a central nervous system, or at least without central control of its various body parts. There exist such persons, I admit, but surely, when the supreme court declared that corporations were persons, it did not mean to say “persons with advanced neuromuscular degenerative diseases”.
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So if Walmart is a life form, it is an unclassifiable one. It eats, devouring town after town. It grows without limit, sometimes assuming new names – Walmex in Mexico, Asda in the UK. Yet in its defence in the Dukes v Walmart suit, Walmart claims to have no idea what it’s doing. This could be a metaphor for capitalism or a sign that a successful alien invasion is in progress. The only thing that’s for sure is, should the supreme court decide in favour of Walmart, we’ll have a lot more of these creatures running around: monstrously oversized “persons” who insist that they can’t control their own actions.
In the article, the writer shares some of experience in working for Walmart for a few months.
Apparently, Walmart is a shape-shifter.
