Yes, it helps to be a cis-white-male to play in the game in the US (and a brahmin male in India and Han in China and Kikuyu in Kenya or whatever), but mainly you have to be willing and skilled enough to play in the Hobbesian meritocratic game of expropriation/privatization.
Yes, that's the only place I'm looking :D Nation-states are not dying, but they are going to be something of a vestigial layer of the stack that's going to float up for ceremonial use, with more consequential layers like MNCs sinking below to be new bedrock.
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Corporate power has been reined in before. I think people are more comfortable with a nationalist power they can control than a corporate power they can’t. And when corporate power feels too dominant, government tends to step in (see: Trustbusting)
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Dangerous belief in history rhyming exactly. This ain't Standard Oil.
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