The first thing that more people need to understand is that corporations are artificial entities sanctioned by the state, which, as presently dealt with, are perpetual in nature. In other words, once a corporation is created, the state does not set an end date, which is why there are numerous corporations with business lives far exceeding the natural lifespan of everyday individuals. Perhaps this is a good thing, but rather it would appear to be something that has its negative aspects, as well, because the most successful of corporations, get ever larger, and make ever more profit, maybe not each and every year, but in general, which means that mega corporations have an enormous amount of economic power, which signifies that what they so want to do, can easily trump what is best for the people as well as for the community.
That is to say, corporations have a lot of flexibility of where they locate their main office or their satellite offices, which obviously makes a difference to the community that hosts these mega corporations, because when done right, mega corporations bring not only jobs to a given community, but because of these jobs, helps that community to be more prosperous; in addition to the fact that communities that are doing better and employing talented people, provides an opportunity for those communities to bring in more like-minded corporations, as well.
At the same time, in life, we have to recognize that there are going to be winners as well as losers, so that when a given mega corporation for whatever reason, valid or not, decides to shut down one of their satellite offices, which may have thousands upon thousands of employees, this is typically going to be quite traumatic to the community that had previously hosted that mega corporation, which can thereupon let loose the type of negative spiral that can hollow out a given community.
It would seem that mega corporations, as presently structured in America, through their powerful position often are able to dictate the terms and conditions of what they will or will not do in a given community, which quite obviously is going to be good for that mega corporation, but could well leave communities vulnerable to adverse events, which hardly seems fair. This would presuppose that large corporations, because the government of the United States sanctions them, should, in many cases, have to answer to that government, and thereby adhere to what that government believes would be fair for a given community. In other words, mega corporations should be answerable to the governance of the community, as compared to being a law unto its own self.
As it stands right now, the government, is the only entity that has the inherent power to do something constructive to make sure that mega corporations are good corporate citizens, but in absence of that happening, (which happens to be what most corporation’s preference is, because their overriding concern is profitability,) we find that as it plays this is not fair to the people, because corporations should have an obligation to do right by the government that has sanctioned its existence, and thereby do right by the people that make up this nation.