Corporations resist ethical chastisement because they are not human individuals

Evidence

What agencies are capable of regulating and controlling impersonal structures? How is it possible to chastise a corporate structure? Yes, corporations can legally be treated as individuals – but the problem is that corporations, whilst certainly entities, are not like individual humans, and any analogy between punishing corporations and punishing individuals will therefore necessarily be poor. And it is not as if corporations are the deep-level agents behind everything; they are themselves constrained by/ expressions of the ultimate cause-that-is-not-a-subject: Capital. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 145

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘cause-that-is-not-a-subject’ formulation of Capital resonates with the non-subjective, structural forces Fisher describes throughout; also links to metaphor of conspiracy as centerless parallax in this same chapter. — connects to: Corporate vices are engendered by structure, not by individuals — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 142; Individualistic ethical models cannot grasp how corporations and Capital act — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 140; Corporate personhood is a legal fiction defined by its consequences, not ontology — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 383 (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Introduces the technical notion of Capital as a cause-that-is-not-a-subject, resisting both individualist and structuralist reduction.

Related

• Corporate vices are engendered by structure, not by individuals (similarity 0.87)
• Capital as cause-that-is-not-a-subject escapes all accountability structures (similarity 0.87)
• Individualistic ethical models cannot grasp how corporations and Capital act (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalism has no center, only entities incapable of responsibility (similarity 0.84)
• Corporations depend on a fiction that nobody individually believes (similarity 0.83)
• Blame-shifting alternates between individual scapegoats and diffuse structure to shield capital (similarity 0.81)
• Corporate structure deadens and subsumes hopeful individual managers (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism shifts blame between individuals and structure to deflect accountability (similarity 0.80)
• Corporate wrongdoing stems from diffused responsibility rather than individual guilt (similarity 0.79)
• Corporate personhood is a legal fiction defined by its consequences, not ontology (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Individualistic ethical models cannot grasp how corporations and Capital act #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 140
• Corporate personhood is a legal fiction defined by its consequences, not ontology #expands (0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 383
• Corporate wrongdoing stems from diffused responsibility rather than individual guilt #expands (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 377
• Structural diffusion of responsibility in corporations shields executives and strips morality from harm #expands (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1605
• Legal personhood rests on punishability and moral judgment, which corporations lack #qualifies (0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 382
• Corporate executives minimize and displace blame for systemic wrongdoing onto renegade individuals #exemplifies (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1602
• Ethical appeals to individual responsibility let impersonal structures evade accountability #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 139