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> governments are still vastly less competent than multinational corporations.

Speaking of competence devoid of context misses the point. They are resembling each other greatly in the sense of misaligned incentives with their "users", which supersedes run-of-the-mill competence in terms of importance in this context. I'm not going to give points to some moron who is swimming competently in the wrong direction.

> MNCs also don't force you to pay taxes or buy their products.

An oddly naive comment given all that has been written about how Amazon operates, to give one example.