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This is beyond stupid. A democracy is structured to be open and conflict is embedded to force decision-making by consensus and compromise. Corporations are st

This is beyond stupid. A democracy is structured to be open and conflict is embedded to force decision-making by consensus and compromise. Corporations are structured to be closed, authoritarian structures. We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence. Super lucky.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence If it has the latter, it is, by definition, the State. Irrespective of scale (and state-like scale is meaningless.)
throwawayjava 9y ago
> We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence. Super lucky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company