Ellis,

I agree. I was playing with the odd idea that the US courts have that a corp. is a person, which it clearly is not.

>"The nature of corporations has to be to make money, to create not only wealth but also debt and most of all to expand, to grow larger and larger consuming greedily as they go."

As you imply, corporations act more like a "mindless profit machine" and I'm interested in the idea that Darwin's laws of natural selection may be operating here.

If the corporations are the new city-states (possible, at least), what can put the brakes on their growth? Any ideas?