Timeline for How could a modern company-state form? [closed]
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| Sep 19, 2018 at 15:31 | history | closed |
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| Sep 19, 2018 at 15:07 | comment | added | bukwyrm | The question lacks details: what would this corporation do? How would it differ from a normal state (any state has profiteers, salaried personnel; many corporations offer health services, or sick pay..)? How would it differ from some construct like Costa Rica? Would it need to be recognized by all states on earth? The UN? Is it traded? | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 14:51 | answer | added | Jared K | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | personjerry | @kingledion I agree somewhat, but isn’t that a similar problem to any world building question? | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 14:29 | answer | added | tbrookside | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 13:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 19, 2018 at 13:34 | comment | added | kingledion | This questions is too opinion based and broad. Not only is state formation a very complex process, but how can you tell that one answer is more correct than another? | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | AlexP | The basic problem with this kind of scenarios is that corporations have no reason whatsoever to want to become states. Corporations make money, states spend money. What modern sovereign state does not run a deficit? Corporations have enough complications in their lives without bothering with social welfare, education, culture, defense, diplomacy and so on. Corporations want to specialize in what they are good at doing, states by necessity need to fulfil many different, divergent and often competing functions. | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 13:09 | history | asked | personjerry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |