>>People, and only people, have rights.
People, and those collective Frankensteins vested with personhood - aka Corporations.
Corporatism IS Collectivism IS Communism: and all of the above are simply forms of fascism - where the Individual is subjugated by the collective structure of governance.
Corporations only have those rights, or more properly immunities, allowed by the law in the state in which they are incorporated, by federal law, or in some cases state law in other states.
Corporations reduce individual risk, and unfortunately responsibility, and thus encourage risk taking. That's mostly a positive.
They predate the formation of the United States. IIRC the first ones were formed in Holland, which allowed them to gain a march on other countries, until the other countries followed suite. So in a way, the existance of corporations are responsible for many place mans in New York City, formerly New Amsterdam, and even up the Hudson River a bit.