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Duncan Ian Wallace, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Is a corporation a slave? Many philosophers think so

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If you’ve ever heard the term “wage slave”, you’ll know many modern workers – perhaps even you – sometimes feel enslaved to the organisation at which they work.

But here’s a different way of thinking about it: for-profit business corporations are themselves slaves.

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