Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:12:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Top 100
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Ted White wrote:

> From: "ecf" <ecfield at comcast.net>
>
>> It may be of interest that of the top 100 economic entities in the
>> world, 51 are corporations.
>>
>> http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
>>
>> Ever since I read "The Stars My Destination" I've thought that corporate
>> wealth would become more powerful than governments.
>
> Read my late-'60s Crown juvenile, NO TIME LIKE TOMORROW.  In it
> corporations have *replaced* nations, and are controlled by hereditary
> aristocracies.

Or if you're not into juvenalia, read Sprague de Camp's "The Stolen
Dormouse", from the 1940s, which has exactly the same theme.  And the
hereditary aristocracies were at feud, too.  ("A Ford marrying a
Generalmotors -- tsk, tsk!")  Gave Sprague a chance to rerun "Romeo and
Juliet" with a happy ending, even if he did make the mistake of claiming
that bacgteria violated the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

-- Dick Eney