>I think we have to do something so that only humans can own property.
I agree. In the last year of law school, you get to study wills and estates.
Do you know that humans are not allowed to put "to my family forever" in a will?
Reason given to us in class?
LAND, like money, is an asset that must be free for future generations to buy and sell. So humans can not keep their land in families. It is a way to keep certain families from accumulating all the property, and creating a whole generation of landless peasants.
It is called the rule against perpetuity.
At the time of our founders, neither people or corporations could hold land forever.
So what happened????
Back at the time of the founding, for a long time, corporations not only could not own property forever, they could not live forever. Automatic death of the corporation was the default position after about every 20 years.
A corporation was given a "state charter" for about 20 years, and after that 20, they had to come in to the state and apply for continued, existence by being granted a NEW CHARTER. When they applied…
They got the good citizen checkup, to see if they were worthy of another charter (operated by the many state charter laws).
IF… a corporation was sued too many times by humans in civilization, if it was caught being a bad actor, breaking the law, or harming civilization in any way, the charter was simply denied.
No "fines", no tying up the courts.
Auto execution by operation of state charter law. Period.
Under the old charter laws, MANY of our corrupt corporations would have disappeared by simple denial of their charter for bad behavior, breaking the law etc.
Big Pharma would be so fucked right now.
And Monsanto????? Gone long ago.
This legal auto execution process did something REALLY SMART.
It FORCED the corporate boards to consider good citizenship in the bottom line, not just profits.
The corporations went around and lobbied to gut the many state charter laws over time, while we were all sleeping. You can still see remnants of the old charter laws on the books in most states.
Not only should corporations not be allowed to own land (especially foreign corporations).
But the charter laws should be reinstated.
Execution for bad behavior automatic.
Our Hidden History of Corporations in the U.S.
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/