When the corporation became a legal entity it joined the family, the church, and the state as a legitimate owner of goods in perpetuity. Capital had become as important as relatives, government, and religion in practice if not in theory.
Corporations are bloodless, a collection of documents and tax forms as much as a legion of people.
So they've devoted their resources to and spawned new corporations for information technology . This file created with Hypertype 2.2 by Simon St.