This part:

“The concept that companies are “artificial persons” is necessary because you can’t enter into a contract with an inanimate object, and you can’t take an inanimate object to court if that contract is breached.”

… is an artifice of our worldview and how we have enshrined certain ideas into our institutions.

Some humans in the past did indeed fell that they were in a relationship with the Earth, different things in or on the Earth, as well as mysterious beings above the clouds (or below the earth.)

We created our legal system yet we seem to like to act as if we’re powerless to change it. Why not make a fundamental change to our Constitution, where we clearly lay out that “rights” can only apply to organisms like humans?