A conceptual problem with this analogy is that when a corporate whale dies in a community the people that live their wouldn't be represented by other separate organisms - they would be the cells of the whale and cells of other whales.<p>This article is just much like the theory of social darwinism, in that it willfully twists valid scientific knowledge to push a social agenda that has little in common with the analogy. "We need more [vulture capitalists], not less" my foot.