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In fact, the original concept of a corporation was that they were created for a specific purpose and then dissolved once completed. In a way, the fact that modern corporations don't do that is analogous to how cancer is mutated cells that don't stop growing, even to the detriment of the host.



> In fact, the original concept of a corporation was that they were created for a specific purpose and then dissolved once completed

You're wrong there. One of the original corporations grew to become the sovereign power over a whole sub continent and eventually got nationalized into a colonial administration. Another original corporation had a para military mandate and conducted large scale open ended naval warfare in three different continents.




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