NO ONE WILL ADMIT IT, BUT THANK GOD FOR OUR CORPORATE OVERLORDS
It’s not popular to applaud corporations these days. But in an age of political gridlock, bureaucratic indecision, crumbling infrastructure, and emerging authoritarian tendencies across the planet, Amazon, Apple, et al. may be the only thing holding the world together right now.
Amazon’s logistical efficiency puts every other human entity to shame. Apple’s global supply chain is likely one of the few things that has prevented some sort of aggression with China. Nobody likes oil companies, but if it weren’t for them, we’d all probably be puppet states of Saudi Arabia. Tech companies like Samsung, Facebook, and Google are the ones spearheading internet infrastructure throughout the third world. And the greatest innovations in renewable energies are coming from the private sector.
Yes, the size of these corporations and their power and outsized influence cause problems. But then again, there are associated problems with any organization wielding lots of power. My point is simply that it’s just as easy to overlook the benefits of these behemoths as it is to criticize their faults. But these companies run the planet more than any international governmental organization. And in some ways, that might be a good thing.