What is wrong with having companies, corporations are soul less, and heartless machines. Corporations are what you get when they want protection from the wrongs they do, and influence in high places. They don’t need influence, if the elected officials go to jail for being influenced.
I knew a former board member of Honeywell. I asked him why companies hired former Democratic politicians to sit on the board, paid them, but those people never went to a meeting. He said, basically, that government preyed on companies to get money as do NGO’s like the Reverend Jessy Jackson. When that happened, you’d have someone like Mike Dukakis or Hillary Clinton call them up and “chat.” That generally made whatever the issue was go away. He said, “They’re crooks, but they don’t poach on each other’s territory.”
If a company isn’t involved in politics, then it will get picked apart with special assessments or expensive rules and regulations lobbied for by climate extremists. The system as it exists forces companies to be involved in politics for self-preservation. It’s the rare company, like Enron, that is actually evil. They’re generally run by fair, law abiding citizens. The exceptions...the “soulless” conglomerate is rare. Officers of corporations are required by law to look out for their investors first. What appears to be heartless is someone making a decision, as required by law, in favor of the company owners...stockholders...instead of, say giving money to save the whales or save us all from global warming.