I'm sometimes still curious if EIC ever had a chance to take over UK. It's because I've heard someone claiming that they never had that chance. And this is used

I'm sometimes still curious if EIC ever had a chance to take over UK. It's because I've heard someone claiming that they never had that chance. And this is used as a basis for an argument that corporations can never win against nation-state and that cyberpunk will never happen irl (at least the ultracorps part).