It shields people from losing personal assets that aren&#x27;t tied up in the business. It isn&#x27;t a get-out-of-anything card, though, and I see no evidence that corporations as a concept allow people to be personally unaccountable for actions.<p>When people complain about corporations as evil in the abstract, I can only assume they don&#x27;t understand the nature of the exercise of power, or are unwilling to examine it closely due to &quot;down with corporations&quot; being emotionally resonant for them.