Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It
I&#x27;m not sure why anyone takes her argument seriously. Companies don&#x27;t pull me over while I&#x27;m driving. Companies don&#x27;t put me in prison. Companies don&#x27;t extort me under threat of violence. Companies don&#x27;t enslave me. Only criminal organizations and governments do those sorts of things. At worst, companies can use existing government frameworks to coerce me (and I can use the same frameworks to coerce them). Typically, all they can do is stop paying me.<p>Most importantly, people can switch companies far easier than they can switch governments. Changing jobs is easier than moving between states, let alone countries. Switching costs could be lower (mostly related to health insurance), but overall companies are competing pretty hard for workers. That&#x27;s why they advertise positions, hire recruiters, and go to colleges and job fairs. Could you imagine governments behaving similarly? The only thing that comes close is the military, and that&#x27;s because their potential recruits can choose private sector jobs.