The corporation that can live on for 100s or 1000s of years In a conversation on Facebook about Walkaway, one of my fave Doctorow novels, I’ve just read: “It would be quite difficult to make corporations immortal. Corporations exist while the value they are designed to generate is needed. If there’s not much more money to be made by giving that value (for various reasons), the money will go out of that corporation, and go somewhere else where it might turn a profit (or it’ll die and eat up the money you didn’t pull out earlier)” The sentence “Corporations exist while the […]