I know. But should they be? I seem to recall reading that after the American Revolution, corporations were regarded with great suspicion, and might not have been allowed legal “entity” status.
They can’t vote. What other rights are denied to corporations that “real”, corporeal entities have (or might acquire)? Inversely, what legal penalties do living being suffer that corporations are immune to?
For example, many people are executed in the US every year – but I’ve never heard of a corporation being “executed”. Unless you’d like to argue that going bankrupt is a form of execution, of course…