If people didn't open companies, where would people work? Not every person has capital to just open up a business. People depend on corporations for their livelihoods.
People had jobs and businesses before companies existed.
People depend on corporations for their livelihoods.
Which is how corporations want it, so we have no choice but to accept whatever work conditions and compensation they dictate. Thankfully there are ways to fight back against this.
They get money, health benefits, and retirement from the corporations.
In the US, yes. In just about every other modern country people get healthcare from the government, and possibly retirement in some countries.
Also, how many times have we seen a company declaring bankruptcy and use it as an excuse to not pay pensions, while still giving multi-million dollar 'golden parachutes' to the executives that caused it?
If a corporation closes up, people get angry that they are out of a job.
And if a corporation decides to move manufacturing overseas so it doesn't have to pay people as much, the people here are angry that they are out of a job, while the corporation sees its profits increase.
It is logical that we need the corporations to exist in order to make money and have a career.
No it isn't
People like to say "the rich are pissing all over us," but how?
By paying employees starvation wages, where people have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to get by, while the owners throw multi-million dollar birthday parties for themselves. By bribing politicians to make sure they don't see an increase in their taxes that would amount to a rounding error in their wealth, while leaving the people who struggle to pick up the tax bills. By bribing politicians to make sure they don't have to pay employees a wage they can live on. For a real world example, Walmart owners are billionaires, yet we see a Walmart store doing a food drive to help their own employees.
Anyone can go to Walmart and see poor people stocking multiple carts full of stuff that they need for their lives. How does this not help them?
When they have to work multiple jobs to pay for that stuff, and it still might not cover everything they actually need, when the food is low quality making obesity a common problem, when these people are poor because companies won't pay them what they are worth, or ship their jobs overseas.
So all the worship of corporations aside, as everyone else has noted, reducing the taxes corporations pay has never amounted to any significant increase in either pay or jobs offered.
Honestly, I believe there is a reverse effect. When the top marginal tax rate was 70%+ there was a large middle class. The company owners would see that every dollar over a certain point (around 3 million I think) would be taxed at a high rate they had a choice. Either pay the taxes, which would hopefully be put to good use helping people by the government, or stay under that profit level by reinvesting in the company, like giving people better pay, hiring more people, which would be the actual 'trickle down'. But when Reagan cut the top taxes, then they could put those profits into their own pockets, and had no need to limit the profits. And the easiest way to increase profits? Decrease labor costs! Do the same job with fewer people, pay them as little as possible, move those jobs overseas where they can pay even less and don't have to worry about pesky labor laws.
