Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

For those who do not recognize it, that’s a quote from The Devil’s Dictionary, written by Ambrose Bierce between 1881 and 1906, published in full in 1911. And yes, that is the full definition given for the word “Corporation”:

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