- significantly diminish limited liability. If your corp causes a chemical spill that kills many people, the executives should be put on trial for mass murder.
This change creates a large incentive to do the right thing -- like not implicitly killing.
These corporations are not people. They are run by people. We need to start holding those people accountable for their actions. We need to start naming them and attaching their names to the disasters they are causing.
If you are the head of an oil company when a massive spill occurs, not only should you live in poverty for the rest of your life, but you should probably be in a jail cell for the rest of your life as well for being a danger to society in the pursuit of personal riches.
If we can throw people in prison for carrying certain rocks for all their life, I think this is more than reasonable.
- how these are causing the current status quo and
- explain what you believe are the expected effects.
It's an internet comment, not an academic essay, so you can just refer to things -- but you're in a diverse forum where most people aren't going to instantly recall the established zeitgeist you're trying to evoke. Many of us aren't familiar with your zeitgeist, so sparse references to it mean nothing to us.
I have no idea what you mean by "citizenship". I don't know what problems this is causing, what the change would look like, and why that would be expected to improve the problem.
- Revoke their "personhood"
- Tax them appropriately
- Prevent them from being too big to fail
- Hold their officers accountable
- Prevent them from hiring public officials
But I'm open to other ideas!