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Q: How do you know when a trillion-dollar corporation is evil?
A: When it‘s a trillion-dollar corporation.
@aral Just being a corporation is enough actually. The goal of corporations is to increase the money/payout for the shareholders, not to do good for the customers or heck the world, let alone to deliver a proper product.... oh and no, non-profits do not count anymore often unfortunately, they just make sure that the money is spent every cycle and often are just a way for tax write-offs for the large corporations...
@jeroen Indeed.
@aral
Enclosing commons? Why should something be a property of someone if he did nothing to earn it?
Selling something at market value is reasonable thing. The question you should ask is why is the market value so high. Usually it has to do with gov. intervention.
Taxes inetself is a crime. I don't thjnk we should begrudge anyone who is trying to escape explanation.
@jeroen
freezr Which should it be the lowest gross income to make a corporation at least neutral?
By the way I am biased that public companies are evil by nature.
@aral What about Freddie Mac. 
@aral
A person writes a book. Its a hit! It brings joy and happiness to millions. They freely give him money for his book abd he becomes a millionaire.
He adapts it to movie and brings even more joy and happiness to humanity. As a by product he becomes a multi millionaire.
He creates a corporation to manage parks and rides, and people just can't get enough.
His company is worth trillions.
At what point those this person become evil?
@kpeace At the point where he decides to accumulate all that wealth instead of sharing it with his editor, the cast and crew of the movie, the people who built and work at his team parks, and with his community and the world at large. You don’t become a billionaire by bringing joy to people, you become a billionaire by allowing yourself to benefit the most from an unfair and unjust system. If he’d set up a cooperative and paid taxes like everyone else he wouldn’t be a billionaire.
@aral
The person who sold his book, movies and rides did it at a market price. He sold it at a price that other people thought was one that they will gain value by paying it.
I don't see why this billionaire should pay more than the market price.