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In non-democratic settings, corporations can be more flexible than hierarchical states because profit incentives let them choose and replace leaders for competence rather than bloodline or other extraneous considerations.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“In non-democratic environments,”
“yes,”
“the corporations, for the reasons you outlined,”
“profit driven and therefore not loyal to bloodlines or any other kind of extraneous circumstances, but just looking for the most competent leadership and capacity to change and replace people are much more flexible than those kind of hierarchical states,”Play from 1:31:17Report a misattribution
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