Nah. Companies don't have coercive power. Governments do, even if directing that power according to the whims of democracy. > If we cut back government, we red

Nah. Companies don't have coercive power. Governments do, even if directing that power according to the whims of democracy. > If we cut back government, we redistribute that power to the already powerful people and institutions. I reject the implicit assumption that there is a "conservation of power" law at work. Just look at authoritarian states vs freer countries: there is no entity in the freer countries exercising totalitarian control over the citizens. This means that the total power exerted on the individual is not conserved.