Post #1351274
2026-03-31 00:00 UTC
@GrahamDowns –
Good to see you on this end. ^ ^
Both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook (most recently this month) have pointed out that a company is a group of people, and it feels deliberate because that does feel sort of inapparent in the US; feelings about corporations seem to derive from a not-recent ruling that for many purposes, a single corporation is considered identical to a person for legal accountability, even given the lack of existence of any corresponding single person.
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@Starfia@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 00:00
@GrahamDowns – Anyway, I've guessed that consideration – a company equals the people executing the mission – underpins that, and I'd love to find historical evidence that really affirms it. (Do you think the other pluralizational difference there is based on something so profound, or is that just more of a sense of grammar feeling different to different cultures?)