At 10:20 AM -0800 2/15/00, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>At 09:44 PM 2/13/00 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>> Megacorp are every bit as evil as governments are. The destruction
>>of the state and multinational corps go hand-in-hand. In fact, they
>>probably are even more evil -- and certainly more efficient in their evil.
>
>Governments derive all their revenue by threatening to kill
>people. Corporations only derive a small part of their revenue from other
>institutions (governments) that derive their revenue by threatening to kill
>people. No contest.
This whole "megacorps" meme is getting tiresome. (It was tiresome in the
1960s, and earlier. It's even more tiresome today.)
Consider that Cisco is just about to become the largest industrial
corporation in the world, based on market value. It didn't exist until
about 15 years ago. So much for the power of "megacorps."
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
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