Microsoft Must be held accountable.

[Anton Markov]

I think you are still living in the industrial age!

Lloyd D Budd wrote:
>>(Fortunately) corporations can survive things like lawsuits 
>>better than individuals.
> 
> That is not a fortunate thing! Individuals, *people* should by more able
> to *survive*. Fortunately, corporations (the needs of many) seem to be
> legally more protected than individuals. Unfortunately, law is currently
> largely capitalistic.  The larger your wallet the easier it is to be
> legally correct. A small company with one or a few "great inventions"
> can be suffocated by a large immoral company.

Your concept of a "corporation" is very outdated.  A corporation is 
nothing more than a record sitting in a file-folder in some lawyer's 
office.  Anyone can create a corporation for $89 CAN online at the 
Government of Canada's website.  In the digital age a corporation 
doesn't have to be a big building with many offices, manufacturing 
plants, warehouses, etc.  It can be a single person working from a 
basement apartment; that is certainly how Bill Gate started off.

The power of the corporation comes from the fact that it can protect 
individuals from lawsuits and the government.

If someone sues you personally, you can get thrown in jail, your 
possessions can be confiscated, etc.  If someone sues your company even 
if it consists solely of you, you can just file for bankruptcy and go do 
something else.

More importantly, a corporation pays taxes on its (or your) net profits 
rather than gross cash flow as does an individual.  That means that you 
can avoid paying taxes on things like new computers, gas (partially), 
etc.  With a *good lawyer* (don't take my work for it!), your "income" 
(net) will decrease to a very small percentage of your gross.

The best part about this deal is that these advantages are available to 
anyone.  It's not about luck.  Anyone can use these tools if they want 
to, no matter what you do for a living.  I would recommend a great book 
called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki if you want to learn more 
about the "secretes" of the rich.


P.S. What would you do, and what would you envision the world as if 
Microsoft went bankrupt or just out of business in the next year?  Say 
everyone including the government sues Microsoft, threatens to throw 
Bill Gates in jail, and Bill Gates decides to take his personal billions 
and retire to some place far away like Australia.  Microsoft is gone. 
Poof. No more!  What would happen?

-- 
Anton Markov <("anton" + "@" + "truxtar" + "." + "com")>

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