Sharpe's Opinion

Thursday, 4th Feb, 2010

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Governments already have trouble controlling multinationals and in their pursuit of profit, it can all go awry. In your scenario they will govern us so they no longer have to sell us decent goods and services to get hold of our money but in the initial stages they might be nice to us to get us to vote for them. I can see various conflicts of interest arising. In the short term it is going to be the world of academia that has a field day on this one. :-)

 

The anti-politics sentiment in the UK could easily put a few celebrities into Parliament at the next general election, and I see no reason why similar logic could not push a few big brands into the limelight too – particularly if they throw some serious money at it.

 

Unlimited funding does rather bring to mind images of the old Banana Republics. United Fruit and Standard Fruit used to practically run large swathes of South American. The USA is very entrepreneurial; maybe new companies will spring up to offer affordable government with easy monthly installments.

 

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