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Yeah, that's certainly one of the rhetorical tricks. If we can get people to abstract the term "corporation" into a thing that they can imagine having free will and acting on its own, we can then demonize them by ascribing all sorts of evil motives to them.

You're right. I'm sorry. Corporations are just big, stupid animals. There are no people making decisions anywhere at all. Clearly this is true since, humans generally exhibit loyalty. Loyalty to those with whom they deal, and a sense of patriotism for their nation. Hell, some humans even squeeze a little Christianity into their daily lives, actions, and decisionmaking processes.

No humans are involved anywhere in the exporting of industry, just cheaper MeatBots.

Loyalty. Here is a clipping I have keep close to me from the Wall Street Journal, 22 Jul 1997:

BLIND DEVOTION WANTED?
Fully 86% of about 500 chief executives surveyed by Goodrich & Sherwood Associates, New York-based employment consultants said they value loyalty most in subordinates. Next -- and far down -- on the list of top-valued qualities were sense of humor, named by 6%; capacity for hard work, by 5%; and integrity, by 3%.

Of Corporate America's leader's in 1997, 86% demanded LOYALTY, only 3% demanded INTEGRITY.

Seems appropos to many things ...

No humans are involved anywhere in the exporting of industry, just cheaper MeatBots.

It only looks that way because the humans making the decisions have not acquired the same enlightened wisdom that you have concerning how to proceed. They have some other enightened wisdom that they're following, and doggone it, it's not the same as yours. To you it looks like they have no loyalty to their fellow humans, and that they are not patriotic. To them it looks like if they don't move the plant to Mexico, the whole damned company will go out of business because the American consumer does not care one whit how many American flags you print on the box, they care about the $10 price difference. At least this way we can save the accounting department and the sales force.

The day that the shoppers in Wal-Mart decide to pay $35 for the American-made Wammerjammer instead of $19.95 for the one from Taiwan, those meatheads in the corporations will be the first ones moving the plants back. You simply cannot go to market with an uncompetitively-priced product in this country. All those free citizens out there spending their own money will not buy the damned thing. Been there, done that, watched a 100-year-old American 'household name' go splat... right into Chapter 7. Quit blaming some artificial Bad Guys in Suits for the actions of free people spending their own money.