alt Hacker NewsCitizens are subjects, they have active voice. You may mean something deeper, but others will happily support only the “active voice” part. Corporations must not have it.
But in certain sense you are right. Corporate management should behave as citizens, and their citizen duties must be superior to their duties to shareholders.
Corporate charters require companies follow the law and make profit. Beyond following the law, what are citizen duties?
Public benefit corporations seem to go nowhere far enough. And I wonder if the language is intentionally vague at the outset.
For example:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/business/FAQs/pbc.html