Yes and no. Governments have to convince employees, citizens, and other governments, agencies and organizations that doing the coercion is in their best intere

Yes and no. Governments have to convince employees, citizens, and other governments, agencies and organizations that doing the coercion is in their best interest. Corporations can coerce people through unemployment, professional ruin (in the case of small professional networks), propaganda and other forms of information control... Large, powerful organizations that dominate local economic and social landscapes are large, powerful organizations that dominate local economic and social landscapes; and it's not like people in one situation are somehow fundamentally different from people in the other. If losing your job - or worse, keeping your job - restricts your choices as much as prison, does the moral difference matter? How close does the restriction of options due to un/employment have to get to prison for it to be a Problem? Yes, there's a difference, and yes, there's a moral difference, and yes, governments have access to forms of coercion that corporations do not... but. Everything is still made of people, and if you can't leave - through actuality or perception - then it doesn't really matter.