What if corps were allowed to be monopolies but nations were not (ie no territorial/military monopoly for anyone). Well-posed thought expt?
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put another way, who would stop Corp monopoly if state didn't have control of market access.
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ever read Vinge's short story 'Conquest by Default' or novella 'The Ungoverned'?
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is nation used as a synonym for state or as a reasonably contiguous sociocultural-linguistic group
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Military and police would reduce that arrangement to privilege themselves. Seems deeply unstable.
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You're suggesting that nations would not be states. They'd be like the Lakota Nation or the Nation of Islam or the Romani.
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