link to original reddit post by /u/Skogbeorn
I've been getting back into Shadowrun, an old cyberpunk rpg from the 80s, which prominently features extraterritoriality - the idea that big corporations act like the final arbiters of all law within their privately owned territory (in practice, privately owned states). It got me thinking, what prevents a situation under anarcho-capitalism where corporations are free to violate your fundamental liberties in the same way current day states do, due simply to owning all the land so that you have nowhere else to go? As an extension, could we perhaps even argue that modern day states are in practice exactly that - private entities laying claim to entire countries, owned by the political elite?
I suppose this is partly a question of real world incentives, and partly just general philosophical musing. Thoughts?