[int_19h]

Large banks, and, more broadly, any large company is also concentrated power, though.

[tastyfreeze]

True. But large companies don't have the power to jail you, or worse, for crossing them. History has shown how hellish living under a powerful malevolent government can be.

[int_19h]

The only reason why they don't have that power is because the government jealously guards it. In places where that's not the case, what would stop them?

[tastyfreeze]

Nothing. That is why we gave government the power to make and enforce laws and limited power elsewhere.

[int_19h]

And how stable did that configuration prove to be?