That's OK in principle, as long as those companies function like governments (i.e. they work to improve things rather than turn a profit, subject to constitutio

That's OK in principle, as long as those companies function like governments (i.e. they work to improve things rather than turn a profit, subject to constitutions, public voting, judicial review). As engineers we should embrace the efficiency of scale, but it's quite clear that it can't work under capitalism.