Public or Profit?

When you consider a person, what characteristics come to mind?  Maybe physical attributes like tall or skinny.  Maybe traits such as honest or easy going.  Do these same traits come to mind when considering a corporation?  I know that I can think of a certain corporation such as adidas and an image of what I think that corporation is like will come to mind, similar to what happens when a certain person comes to mind.  When a corporation first comes to my mind I don't initially think of that corporation as a group of many different people, but instead as one body or one person.  This is because corporations are treated like individual people.  Under the law they have the same rights as an individual.  They can do things like sue and borrow money just like a person.  That is not a problem at first glance.  After all, corporations are what keeps our economy flowing so they should be able to function as a person.  They have to have the rights that individuals have in order to continue the business.  The problem is that corporations themselves are not individuals.  They don't have a beating heart or a soul.  They have one mission and that is to increase business in order to gain money.  Gaining money is also not a problem until gaining money becomes gaining more and more profit.  The want to gain more profit leads to greed and greed is never satisfyed.  All of the people that make up the corporation become consumed in earning more profit and they hide behind their corporations label.  The name "Nike" protects any one individual person from being seen.  So therefore, public interest goes out the window.  A certain mindset says, "It is not the individual failing to uphold the rights and interest of citizens it is the corporation".  With the rights of individuals within reach, corporations gain power.  Although there are a select few corporations that care about the public, most only care about the profit.  A corporation mixed with the rights of an individual has the potential to be deadly.