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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: The push to deny corporations personhood. How are corporations currently exploiting their status as individuals?

I see posts about this all the time, and while the statement that groups of people shouldn't be treated as individuals seems obvious, it isn't really clear to me what's even happening to prompt the outrage in the first place. Who are the bad guys and what are they doing?
gpt
When Congress passed the 14th amendment, they wrote in certain rules that greatly affected the rights people had, as well as the limitations the States had in blocking those rights. The most famous part of the 14th Amendment states:

* " All **persons** born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." *

Some people wanted the word "person" ("All **persons** born or ....") to apply not just to humans, but to corporations as well. Their opinion is that any right given to a person should also be given to a corporation, since the law already recognized that corporations are like artificial humans beings (Corporations make deals like humans, they buy and sell, etc.)

They wanted all the benefits human citizens have and few of the burdens. For example, Corporations want to be able to donate as much money as possible to politicians who will look out for their interests, while citizens are much more limited in that regard. When citizens commit crimes, they can be thrown in prison, but when Corporations do the same (usually on a much larger scale), they don't get thrown in prison, because it's impossible. Afterall, how do you throw an artificial person anywhere? 

Sometimes, when they bankrupt the country, the Government gives them more money to play with. This makes people angry, especially when they find out that some of these Corporations pay very little or no tax, much less in ratio than the average taxpayer.

This, among other things, gives Corporations unfair advantage against individual citizens,  who normally don't have the money or connections to ensure the loyalty of people they elect to represent them.