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No. Corporations are government-granted engines of economic production that use people as one of their economic inputs. Corporations are not simply analogous to network of people.


There is no such thing as an "engine of economic production" that has any concrete existence per se. You are reifying abstractions. These analytical models might be useful, but they are just that -- conceptual models -- all layered on top of the same underlying reality. Everything in society reduces to people and their relations with each other.

Corporations have no factual, objective existence as anything other that networks of individuals coordinating their activities according to certain methods.




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