:11:02
That's one of the weaknesses
of a partnership
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isn't it Sid?
:11:06
Well maybe youd better
incorporate the store.
:11:10
Incorporate?!
:11:11
Yes
:11:12
Incorporating would give you
the big advantage of
:11:15
what you want right now
limited liability.
:11:19
You start with a
group of people
:11:21
who wanna invest their
money in accompany.
:11:23
Then these people apply for
a charter as a corporation.
:11:28
This government issues a
charter to that corporation.
:11:32
Now that corporation operates
legally as an individual person
:11:37
it is not a group of people
:11:40
it is under the law
a legal person.
:11:43
Imperial Steel Incorporated
has many of the legal rights
:11:47
of a person.
:11:48
It can buy and
sell property...
:11:51
It can borrow money.
:11:53
It can sue in court
and be sued.
:11:56
It can carry
on a business.
:11:59
Imperial Steel
:12:00
along with thousands
of other legal persons
:12:03
is a part of our
daily living.
:12:06
It is a member
of our society.
:12:10
Having acquired the legal rights
and protections of a person
:12:13
the question arises
:12:15
What kind of person
is the corporation?
:12:19
Corporations were given
the rights of immortal persons.
:12:22
But then special
kinds of persons
:12:25
persons who had no
moral conscience.
:12:32
These are a special
kind of persons
:12:34
which are designed by law
to be concerned
:12:37
only for their
stockholders.
:12:40
And not say what
are sometimes
:12:42
called their stakeholders
:12:44
like the community or the
work force or whatever.
:12:46
The great problems of having
corporate citizens
:12:51
is that they arent
like the rest of us.
:12:56
As Baron Thurlow in England
is supposed to have said
:12:58
They have no soul to save
:12:59
and they have no body
to incarcerate.