Exactly. Some years ago I worked with a Russian who had been previously laid off from a megacorp. He couldn't make sense of it still a couple years later. I said "Think of it this way, every corporation is like a mini-Soviet Union complete with a five year plan" To which he replied: "No, at least in the Soviet Union they always had a job for you"

Yes it's funny. It's also no secret, and people talk about it. They make musicals about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKC8iPeIvEA Also, what about families? Aren't those dictatorships too or is the similarity superficial?

You make a strong argument for dictatorship.