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I don't see how this is possible unless either the corps become the government or the corps have their own military.

by thereare5lights 6y ago

jhbadger 6y ago
Historically, there have been such things. For example, while one says "The British" colonized India, it was (until towards the end of the colonial era) not actually the British government but rather a British company called the East India Company that had their own military forces.
BaronSamedi 6y ago
The governor of Nevada is proposing exactly this. https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0 https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-gov... Autonomous zones appear to be leaving the realm of science fiction and into reality.
geofft 6y ago
Corps don't need a military in their own name if they can influence existing militaries to do what they want. Chiquita did this repeatedly, for instance - they got the Colombian military to fire on striking workers in 1928, they got the US military to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954, they funded a paramilitary terrorist organization in Colombia from 1997 to 2004, etc.
- thereare5lights 6y ago
  Right but the issue is corps becoming more powerful than government. Needing to act through the government would seem to indicate that corps are not more powerful.
  - MikeUt 6y ago
    Do they "need to act through government", or do they "control government to act for them"?
  - geofft 6y ago
    Being able to make other people do work for you is sort of the standard expression of power. My management doesn't have root, and I do, but they're more powerful than me simply because they can tell me what to do with my root access. The owners of the company probably don't even know who I am, but they are more powerful still because they can tell my management what to do.

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I don't see how this is possible unless either the corps become the government or the corps have their own military.

by thereare5lights 6y ago

I don't see how this is possible unless either the corps become the government or the corps have their own military.

jhbadger 6y ago
Historically, there have been such things. For example, while one says "The British" colonized India, it was (until towards the end of the colonial era) not actually the British government but rather a British company called the East India Company that had their own military forces.
BaronSamedi 6y ago
The governor of Nevada is proposing exactly this. https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0 https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-gov... Autonomous zones appear to be leaving the realm of science fiction and into reality.
geofft 6y ago
Corps don't need a military in their own name if they can influence existing militaries to do what they want. Chiquita did this repeatedly, for instance - they got the Colombian military to fire on striking workers in 1928, they got the US military to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954, they funded a paramilitary terrorist organization in Colombia from 1997 to 2004, etc.
- thereare5lights 6y ago
  Right but the issue is corps becoming more powerful than government. Needing to act through the government would seem to indicate that corps are not more powerful.
  - MikeUt 6y ago
    Do they "need to act through government", or do they "control government to act for them"?
  - geofft 6y ago
    Being able to make other people do work for you is sort of the standard expression of power. My management doesn't have root, and I do, but they're more powerful than me simply because they can tell me what to do with my root access. The owners of the company probably don't even know who I am, but they are more powerful still because they can tell my management what to do.