Exmples needed: rise of a Corporate State (Enterprise) from low-tech to TL9

Plasmabunny · 07-01-2010, 01:48 PM

Some modern day corporations have been known to cross the line from employer to corporate state by overstepping their rights over employees and making demands of employees that violate their rights.

Corporate states could conceivably exist within another larger state if they exercise sufficient control over their employees and tightly control employee communications with those outside the corporation. Though the costs to monitor employees could stifle the corporation's ability to make profits and lead to it's eventual downfall. What it would probably require would be a good internal propaganda machine to convince employees that they should desire to stay within the organization.

Actually, it might be possible to keep employees quiet without good propaganda by convincing them that the law serves them. For instance in some human trafficking organizations, the organization bribes off local law enforcement to return escaped "employees" to the organization.

If a larger state is corrupt enough, a corporate state could actually exercise indirect control over it and function as the hidden defacto government.

Furthermore, a corporate state within another state might encourage free trade and prosecute monopolies if the leadership of the state believed strongly in the efficiency of an open market and the social damage caused by monopolies.

07-01-2010, 01:48 PM	#24
Plasmabunny Join Date: Aug 2007	Re: Exmples needed: rise of a Corporate State (Enterprise) from low-tech to TL9 Some modern day corporations have been known to cross the line from employer to corporate state by overstepping their rights over employees and making demands of employees that violate their rights. Corporate states could conceivably exist within another larger state if they exercise sufficient control over their employees and tightly control employee communications with those outside the corporation. Though the costs to monitor employees could stifle the corporation's ability to make profits and lead to it's eventual downfall. What it would probably require would be a good internal propaganda machine to convince employees that they should desire to stay within the organization. Actually, it might be possible to keep employees quiet without good propaganda by convincing them that the law serves them. For instance in some human trafficking organizations, the organization bribes off local law enforcement to return escaped "employees" to the organization. If a larger state is corrupt enough, a corporate state could actually exercise indirect control over it and function as the hidden defacto government. Furthermore, a corporate state within another state might encourage free trade and prosecute monopolies if the leadership of the state believed strongly in the efficiency of an open market and the social damage caused by monopolies.