lindalove

I dont know why I was thinking about it, but what exactly is the difference between a corporation and a country?

I figured it boils down to the ability to maintain a militia that doesn't answer to a different entity or authority. That, or property details or something. What if, by some insane lobbying, a corporation was somehow granted their own property or jurisdiction of force that is not beholden to a country? I'm pretty damn sure you've got a corporate nation right there. They call their shots, and are not accountable to ANYTHING anymore aside from what they alone dictate, or someone pointing a gun at their face. Just like a country.

So that got me thinkin, say a dozen corporations got some swaths of land under their belts, a small town each perhaps. They might set up incentive programs for their employees to move into their space. All their prior national rights and holdings or whatever are severed, and the employee is now granted exactly what the corp decides. Naturally, the only way an employee would be convinced to go along with this is if the deal were sweet enough. That doesn't seem like it'd be such a hard thing to do.

Our economy dictates much of what a nation decides. In more digestable terms, to the money goes the power. Companies can lobby for their interests currently, even though it clashes with the majority of the population, due to this. So why not just do away with the growing sham of representative government? (I speak from an American standpoint, of course.)

Heres my question ... If you had a dozen companies asking you to move into their territory, each having different benefit packages you could choose from that probably out-do your country's benefits in every way, replacing your government programs and ties, would you take the deal?
Why/Why not?
Would life get worse? Better?
Looking beyond your own wellbeing, are there good or bad consequences for the rest of the world from such a thing as this?