Sorry, i think i changed tack mid-post there, my point with the analogy was that with the corporate model, the citizens seem better off but the government has to be ruthless in it's dealings with 'customers' - ie other countries. If corporation had armies (and who says some of them don't) imagine that! surely the advertising and stock market wars are far more common, brutal and self serving, relatively, than most historical wars?
But also are the citizens really better off? or are they getting done over just as much but in a different way?
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