The person-corporation conflation is new but built on imperial capitalism’s risk management

Evidence

When elite influencers present themselves and their business activities as fundamentally equivalent, we see how some conflation between “corporation” and “person” occurs. This conflation is new but reliant on tendencies essential to the entirety of modern imperial capitalism. The history of the corporation is linked with the management and mitigation of risk when economic relations expand on a global, international scale. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 376

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the reversal from corporate personhood (company as person) to personal corporate-hood (person as company)—the book’s key inversion the reader must explain.