I guess this demonstrates a prime example of one of the biggest differences in the US:
In the US, corporations are people.
In the EU, corporations are legal persons but don't inherently enjoy the same rights/protections as natural persons (i.e. humans).
Just remember the Hobby Lobby ruling: in the US, corporations can have religious beliefs. In the EU that sentence doesn't make any sense because a corporation cannot hold beliefs (though the people employed by or owning it can).
> in the US, corporations can have religious beliefs. In the EU that sentence doesn't make any sense because --
It doesn't make sense because in the EU we didn't artificially create a legal construct to support the notion of corporations having religious beliefs (or "being people").
Please don't act as if both ideas are equally valid descriptions of the real world when one of them is strictly a legal fiction and completely meaningless in any other sense.
I'm sorry but just like the notion that a 2-person startup would need $300/h lawyers for any significant amount of time to ascertain they're sufficiently in compliance with the GDPR to not get sued into oblivion (.. or something? over here people can just read and implement the needed provisions by themselves in under a week, is what I heard from my friends in the business), this seems to be a problem inside the US legal system, doesn't really seem to me like it's the EU's problem to take into account when it's broken like that.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just trying to be objective rather than judge the two models based on my opinion. My opinion would be that the US system is the result of Friedman free market capitalism trumping civil rights over decades. And in Europe I'd consider myself libertarian.
In the US, corporations are people.
In the EU, corporations are legal persons but don't inherently enjoy the same rights/protections as natural persons (i.e. humans).
Just remember the Hobby Lobby ruling: in the US, corporations can have religious beliefs. In the EU that sentence doesn't make any sense because a corporation cannot hold beliefs (though the people employed by or owning it can).