I mean Curtis Yarvin who Vance and all these Tech oligarchs keep citing as their ideological leading star is the ultimate GOP Milton Friedman dream of a country so deregulated that corporations gradually replace the state themselves. His thought experiment about what San Francisco could look like
Is basically a city ruled not by a government but an all seeing corporation known as cis corp
That would eliminate all crime by basically ending all privacy whatsoever but we would all be “happy” because they would know exactly what was bothering every single one of their citizens and could come up with more “efficient” solutions than any legally restrained government could
Of course we all know that some problems like maybe wanting to live under a system that allows freedom to choose who governs you or a reduction in working hours or higher wages would be a problem that would be met with militarized violence since I doubt unionizing would be a thing in this “utopia”
Yarvin is a lunatic. He and his acolytes sound a bunch of baked college bros sitting around their dorm room at 3 a.m.
Corporations have been replacing the state for quite awhile.