Corporations are Vicious Sociopaths, made out of paper. "Regulations" are what protect us.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

56. Teddy bears are also not sociopathic.

They're also not germane to the conversation. Ditto amoebas, giraffes, my uncle's Studebaker, muffin cups, paper weights, cans of compressed air, etc.

I didn't move any goalposts, I corrected an error as to how you categorize and characterize corporations. They are not autonomous entities. They are groups of individual people acting in concert under a slate of laws enacted by the state, which is really just another group of people.

You act as if decisions just happen -- POOF! -- either because a corporation is capable of decisions without human beings making those decisions or that those human beings act without a rationale.

It's not my fault your argument is based on poorly drawn caricatures of how real human beings act and interact.

If you claim a corporation is going to fire 1,000 people to somehow profit while consumer demand remains unchanged then you should be prepared to explain why the corporation is going to cede those sales that would have come from that productivity to their competitor.

I have seen corporations accused of much but ceding market share to competitors because EVIL! is not one of them.