- raise the protection tax they levy on their subjects
- prevent smaller violence monopolists from undercutting their protection fees through competition
Basically governments deciding competition is not good for them and everyone should just pay up.
- with your wallet: buy or not buy from them
- with your broker: invest (and then literally vote from the inside) or not in them
- with your feet: work or not for them
Corporate interests are directly aligned with us exactly because without these votes they are finished. That is why corporates try to create products clients want, profit investors want and salaries workers want. On top of that, social responsibility programs to keep everyone happy and pay their taxes.
There is only one way to vote when it for politicians: with your feet. And they don't care since they win by getting votes and they get votes by spending money which is taken from us. They have no interest aligned to ours.
That is why I much prefer the dominions of corporations.
With politicians ever person only gets one vote, theoretically equal power to force change.
With corporations, the number of votes a person gets is directly related to their bank balance. There’s no such thing as equal power for the people, only the rich get to vote.
But I don't hear governments giving more voting rights to more populous countries, instead it's to the "more developed" (PIB) and "more powerful" (military) both proxies for wealth.
Or to the value stolen. You have to understand that by giving state power to the wealthy, they will declare their own actions legitimate and the actions of the poor to be illegitimate.
Not to mention a big chunk of human progress happened well before the development of democracy. Actually the worst aspects of human development seem to have been driving primarily by greed and wealth accumulation. The thing you seem to be advocating for.
We cannot held consumers hostage for the good of the "small biz".