BY EGO CLICKBAIT IN REYKJAVIK

THE DEATH OF the for profit business model has heralded the rise of the audience monopoly model with global reach – the CorporNation.

“The aim now is to obtain users,” says Wealth Guru Alex Sustainable-Dev a Mumbai-based financier. “They are the wealth of a modern technology company, never mind whether it makes any money. The markets will buy your shares if your user base is growing in the expectation that the company that monopolizes users will monopolize profit in the end. So what’s the quickest to get hold of an instant user base? You buy a country. And this is what’s happening. Unable to sustain their user base growth, tech companies are looking to purchase whole nations. The bid for little Iceland is merely a start. Most of Central and South America is next; and there’s talk that Google wants to buy Canada. But without Trudeau. He’s a deal-breaker.

“The so-called Mega-Tech, whose monopoly is global, is the Golden Fleece of 21st Century business. Companies so powerful that they are more wealthy than countries and answer to no one but share holders. The share holder class becomes a privileged elite. Governments are reduced to the status of functionaries.

“And so the age of the nation state may be gradually giving way to the age of the CorporNation. Nation states appear hopelessly inadequate if your imagination is beyond this planet. You need unfettered global positioning not provincial charity stalls. Many of these companies expect to lead the colonization of space. They will inevitably become more powerful than the countries that gave birth to them. In the end, they will buy and sell countries as if they are mere real estate. Brave New Worlds.”