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> "What is statehood?" By any accepted definition transnational corporations are not states. Even if you modify the moniker with the prefix net- it still feels
by daniel-cussen 9y ago
> "What is statehood?" By any accepted definition transnational corporations are not states. Even if you modify the moniker with the prefix net- it still feels wrong to me.
A childhood friend was exiled/expelled/told to fuck off from Zimbabwe for being white and his family had to move to Chile. He was a political refugee. I understand a lot of that was made possible by the international mining company his dad worked for.
- igravious 9y agoI'm sorry for your friend. But that to me sounds more like corporate capturing† of the Zimbabwean state. † http://www.foei.org/what-we-do/corporate-capture http://www.foei.org/what-we-do/corporate-capture