I'd say corporations are an organized group of people too often doing evil deeds, motivated by money. Then, they go home, pet the dog and love their family like other people.

At work it's only their stock price that matters. The team and investors are a mob pushing them to abandon principles to achieve competitive goals. The non-stock holders who get hurt are the collateral damage of their bunker-buster greed bomb.

Unethical behavior is "normalized." Including taking risks with consumer's health and environment, covering up resulting disasters and scandals, shipping jobs overseas for slave wages and child labor, manipulating laws and legislation, etc..

I watched the Oscar winning film NETWORK again and found it even more relevant today than in 1976. Depicting us being drilled by the oil industry and the prostitutes in news, and, of course, everyone "as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore." But that "mad" speech was rather generic. The speech of real substance, that should be screamed out of every window, is "The Corporate Cosmology of Arthur Jensen" delivered in the CEO's lecture:

...You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. No Russians. No Arabs. There are no third worlds. No West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and inane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.

...You get up on your little screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale.

i'd say, if you want money to "trickle down" put it in Mother Teresa's pocket, not the pocket of Elon Musk or the Lyin' King.

but, you might say, "Mother Teresa never built anything. I say, think again, apprentice breath! Mother Teresa built 610 missions in 123 countries. The world doesn't need more Tr*mp Towers. What the world does need, now more than ever, is more Mother Teresas.

or, you say, "how about that pioneer of profit -- Steve Jobs? Where would we be now if it wasn't for his keen sense of corporate greed?" I say, we would be exactly in the same place, except you might not be able to play piano on your cell phone.

Sure, Steve Jobs was ahead of some curves. But somebody else would have arrived at the same place eventually. Truth is, if Jobs hadn't built his fiercely guarded proprietary machines, we might even be much better off and further along with open source technology and products. Bill Gates is a shrewd businessman also, but of the two hi-tech entrepreneurs, Gates shared more of his work, and ultimately, more of his profits as a philanthropist.

You know who would have made a great project manager? Mother Teresa. We probably would have had an electric car that anyone could afford 30 years ago! Instead of the i-Phone we might have the we-Phone. Likely built collaboratively by a more psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually balanced group of contributors with a set of priorities that could result in a better product and better world at the same time.

But why speculate? Ask any computer technician/geek/guru what operating system has been the most stable, secure, and efficient for the past 30 years. Their answer will not be Jobs' Mac or Gates' Windows. It will be the free, open source Unix/Linux operating system (Uni, meaning one, as in Universal -- as in Universal Healthcare -- which we don't have -- despite our 3D glasses.

Yep. Pretty much sums it up. I’ve been saying this kind of thing for 4 decades. Funny, I was so brainwashed that I didn’t think we had a choice. “That’s the way corporations work.” Kind of like the “boys will be boys” bull💩 excuse for them being aggressive and/mean.

To the point where a Capitalist Market's only goal is growth & stockholder wealth, with no regard for sustainability or environmental impacts, and then to have SCOTUS declare corporations are "people" who vote with money & political force, further cementing their death grip on our Earth that will inevitably result in a depleted, dead Planet - YES, CORPORATIONS ARE EVIL.

I'd say frequently, but not always.

This country really started going to crap after Reagan was installed and the concept of "shareholder value" took hold. Before that, corporations were more or less citizens of their communities and contributed to them, and provided stability to the workforce. CEO's salaries were, by today's standards, only modestly more than workers. But under "shareholder value" CEO's had a fiduciary responsibility to drive up share prices, and they were incentivized by being paid mostly in stock options. This led to layoffs, leveraged buyouts, offshoring jobs, etc. The immortality of the corporate "person" meant there was no risk to them for doing these things. My solution? Corporate charters should only last for a fixed time after which they either die or become employee owned. Investors will have had time to make a fair return on their investment, and workers can claim the revenues stolen CEO's, hedge funds and the like.