The country went through all the trouble of making a foundational document that said all men are created equal, and then said “except in some states, where you can be property”.
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Just yesterday I was telling my daughter about this - that many of the states wanted to get rid of slavery from the very beginning. But then the southern states wouldn’t have joined the nation. So they made compromises.
I know a lawyer that was involved in a huge corporate lawsuit. When he got home after the months-long meetings in D.C. and a solution had been worked out he said “Oh, it was okay I guess. We both agreed on the compromise that was arrived at. But, I don’t know, it seems like such a ....
compromise.”
Some compromises are necessary, certainly in corporate law. Whether or not people can be property... that’s not really a good thing to compromise on. Because really that wasn’t a compromise. That was just flat out discarding an ideal. I don’t really expect corporations to have ideals. People, societies, countries, those are different. And our founders stated one, then chickened out.