Joel Bakan discussed this property of organizations brilliantly in his book "The Corporation," which took as it's starting point the idea that, if we try to anthropomorphize corporations (which we literally do, in a legal sense) the only type of "human" profile they fit is that of a psychopath. Relentless maximization for shareholders at the expense of everything else, and "punishment" is distributed throughout the system in a way that prevents corporations from feeling any sort of meaningful pain that might prevent them from abusing others. It's a nightmare.

I think if we had to pick a single question that defines the modern age it is what we are going to do, as a society, about corporate structure.