Only Humans Score — the pun, and the footnote it's against
From Make America Dream Again — the ethos under the house. One human's voice. No lying.
The name is a joke with a knife in it. Only humans can score — because only humans are real. A corporation can't eat a meal, can't bleed, can't cry at a funeral, can't breed, can't lie awake at 3am, can't drown over a $300 bill. It has no skin — so it has no skin in any game. It cannot score. The machine paints, the machine guesses, the corporation profits — but the scoring, the judging of what a thing is worth, belongs to the only creatures who can actually lose something. Us.
And yet our law calls a corporation a "person." Where did that come from? Not a vote. Not an amendment. A footnote. In 1886, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, a court reporter — not even the justices, in a headnote, not the ruling — wrote that corporations count as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment. The amendment written to free human beings from slavery. The railroads picked up the freedmen's shield and bolted it onto the company. A clerk's margin note became a century of law, and Citizens United poured gas on the fire.
That is, in my honest opinion, the worst dehumanizing footnote in American history. It turned paper into people — and then we started treating people like paper. Means-test the human, never the corporation. Ten-million-dollar VSL for the citizen on paper, infinite rights for the citizen made of paper.
So this whole house is one long pun against that footnote. Personhood belongs to the things that can consume calories, carry scars, and someday stop. Give it back to them. Build the mansions for the ones who need a roof — not for the "persons" who can't even eat.
If the sentence ever feels like it wants to end — in the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), any hour; or find help anywhere at findahelpline.com. You are not alone, and the story isn’t over.