> let's be real: Google and Apple have more power than most nations.
Lets be real, they do not have more power than any nations. They have a lot of power in a few tiny silos that happen to make up like 90% of the mental space of a lot of terminally online folk.
Heck they probably have less power than Coca Cola or Pepsi did during the Cola wars, or United Fruit Company at its height.
Wake me up when Apple rolls a tank into red square or Google does anything but complain about national security legislation it then goes and assertively complies with.
Influence and power are related but separate concepts.
And often the influence of an organisation is related to the state willing to back it. The US intervening for Tesla for instance. And China Petroleum wouldnt be so big if it wasnt for the chinese state.
Lets be real, they do not have more power than any nations. They have a lot of power in a few tiny silos that happen to make up like 90% of the mental space of a lot of terminally online folk.
Heck they probably have less power than Coca Cola or Pepsi did during the Cola wars, or United Fruit Company at its height.
Wake me up when Apple rolls a tank into red square or Google does anything but complain about national security legislation it then goes and assertively complies with.