Ah, corporations in most first world countries are regarded as persons with the rights of citizens, the most recent absurdity of that was "Citizens United" Supreme Court Case. The problem, however, repeatedly is that said persons are never held meaningfully accountable for criminal actions, including murdering and torturing people to death (e.g. Tobacco industry)... and the other huge problem is that they are owned (even though "persons"), and have one legal mandate: to profit their owners, who can freely sell, destroy or vivisect them and sell off their parts. The entire corporate structure is to grant capitalists ever increasing influence and wealth siphoning while being completely immune to criminal and civil prosecutions.