If a massively successful corporation decided to start a country...

[ultimatebob]

Oh, and by the way... the idea of a large company buying a bankrupt Detroit was already done in Robocop. I think that we all know how that turned out.

 

[SlitheryDee]

So you are talking modern day slavery? Hire > pay > make them buy stuff back from you.

Great business plan (Walmart already does that btw).

Well any well managed self-contained economy would kind of work like that wouldn't it? If a country can provide for all of the needs of it's citizens, which is essentially them buying up all the the things they manufactured there, plus have some surplus to sell to other countries, then I imagine that country would become very wealthy very quickly. Wal-mart isn't really doing that since most of their manufacturing is occurring in other countries.

I imagine a corporate country would be designed that way. It would manufacture all the goods it's citizenry needed because that would be cheaper than buying it from somewhere else and then it would have to produce a surplus to sell to other countries for "profit".

 

[K1052]

 

[poofyhairguy]

Oh, and by the way... the idea of a large company buying a bankrupt Detroit was already done in Robocop. I think that we all know how that turned out.

The Japanese Win?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I would probably not. Everything the government (who would basically be the CEO of the company) would be for the benefit of the company and not the people. Then again, that's how current governments work anyway.

It's sickening to see companies that make these ridiculous profits though and yet countries tax the middle class to oblivion while giving these companies all sorts of tax breaks. The big companies making billions should be the ones paying large taxes. They'll STILL be better off.

 

[Black Octagon]

What a strange thread...

I would not want to live in such a place. The work/life balance sounds non-existent

 

[MarkXIX]

I would live in the nation of Contoso. I already work there. I'd have to learn what Lorem Ipsum and all that strange shit is as a language, but I could manage.

Thing is, living in Contoso would mean that most things would be pretty good, except for one really stupid decision that didn't have to be made for every key event.

 

[jagec]

Well, this would essentially be a shift in the model from growth (or at the very least turn a profit) to providing for the corporations citizens. E.g. The companies citizens are both its employees and its shareholders.

So, it would just become a regular ol' democratic republic?

 

[Puppies04]

They already did. It's called Dubai.

You sure are doing a good job of confirming negative stereotypes about your countrymen....