{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So, the classic complaint that corporate lawbreaking isn\u2019t punished with imprisonment but mere fines.\n\n I just realized though,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/120083750038/", "html": "<p>So, the classic complaint that corporate lawbreaking isn\u2019t punished with imprisonment but mere fines.</p>\n\n<p>I just realized though, there\u2019s actual paralellism if you think of the identity of a corporation as inhering not in its employees, or board members, or owners, but in the capital itself, to which the former stand as servants.</p>\n\n<p>Which is true.</p>\n\n<p>And with that in mind, you realize that seizing and holding some portion of the corporation\u2019s capital IS to punish it with imprisonment.</p>"}