Uhm, no, not at all. Nothing about subverting, only diverting a bit maybe, or reallocating resources - let nations do what they are great at, keep their subscri

Uhm, no, not at all. Nothing about subverting, only diverting a bit maybe, or reallocating resources - let nations do what they are great at, keep their subscribers alive, sane and healthy (yeah, core healthcare should probably be left to nations, not the private sector). And the government structures of mega-corporations will by necessity dilute into some techno-algorithmic-cyber-socio-capitalism thingy that would likely be uncomprehensible to us from our current view point. Authoritarian regimes as you can see in the world today rise mainly in small nation states! Also in places with low-information-bandwidth! You can dilute autocracy out of existence in a big enough entity where the decision making is technical by necessity because it needs to optimize a numeric output: profit. (Reason: the complexity of technical decision goes beyond the computing capacities of one mind, so you get dilution by technical necessity... true, not "democracy" by any means, but something that could be mathematically similar enough to it.) Anyway, if other ways to keep communication and transport infrastructure out of the hands of nations could be seen maybe they'd work better. The point would be to enact "separation of powers" at the next scale/level of humanity - separate "communication, transport/mobility and trade powers" from "government and administration powers". (Separating mobility part would also "open the market" and create healthy competition between governments as some people start moving around and "shopping" for a better nation. Over time, you'd end up with better products in the "states & nations" aisle of the world supermarket.) The end game is increased freedom and prosperity opportunities for all. It's just that I don't think that we're going to get this by looking at what worked or didn't work in the past - the future will not be at all like the past, we may not have reached "the singularity" or whatever, but we're staring at a big dark wall of unpredictibility regarding the future, and our previous experience is mostly worthless at seeing through it, we need to really really think far outside the box at how we can get what we want.