[elefanten]

This is beyond stupid.

A democracy is structured to be open and conflict is embedded to force decision-making by consensus and compromise.

Corporations are structured to be closed, authoritarian structures.

We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence. Super lucky.

[dragonwriter]

> We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence

If it has the latter, it is, by definition, the State. Irrespective of scale (and state-like scale is meaningless.)

[throwawayjava]

> We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence. Super lucky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company