Chapter 502 Clearance Process

All countries are paying attention to the development of giant companies, because their influence is increasing day by day, and they have unknowingly had a huge impact on society.

It's just that some countries have the ability to manage it, while other countries can only watch, depending on the country's structure and strength, and how influential the company is.

Social giants hold huge amounts of data, covering all aspects of life. The "datagate" incident involving a social network giant caused a global uproar, causing the technology company's market value to evaporate by hundreds of billions of dollars in ten days, and public trust plummeted.

The company's losses are secondary. More importantly, the large amount of leaked information can be directly used to influence major political events such as presidential elections and national referendums.

This has triggered the outside world’s fear of the Internet giant’s “powerful capabilities” and its daydreams about the future.

It is an undeniable fact that large multinational corporations are growing in strength and have a huge influence on society.

So in the future, will large companies be more powerful than ever?

Will they lead the government by the nose in order to pursue supply chain efficiency?

Will the boundaries between countries then gradually disappear?

Many science fiction works describe the relationship between giant companies and countries in the future, but these are just fantasies about the future, and all kinds of extreme things may happen.

This fantasy is based on facts, but science fiction works have amplified and extreme it.

When it comes to large companies or chaebols, their blood is information, which is what people often call big data now.

Their technological products have penetrated into every aspect of life, and people have been influenced and manipulated. The data that used to be collected by the state has now become a bargaining chip for companies and an integral part of their invisible power.

And as people become increasingly reliant on the Internet, at this rate, tech giants may soon have more personal information than national governments, especially in terms of the level of detail.

Although this information will be limited to a large extent, behind this data lies the huge persuasiveness that companies can exert on users.

And due to the particularity of private companies, making customers more convenient and better serving customers has always been the principle they adhere to. Large companies may eventually win the hearts of the people because of this.

As soon as state agencies are aware of this problem, they are also learning from private companies in many service matters. However, due to some fundamental supply and demand relationships, they cannot be the same as private companies.

It has to be said that this has replaced the functions of the state in some aspects, or eroded the rights of the state.

Throughout history, the power of kings in the Western Middle Ages depended on the loyalty of the lords. This pattern was also similar in the ancient times in the East. It is the same in modern times. The prerequisite for any organization to exercise power is that someone is willing to obey them.

However, even if they win the hearts and minds of the people, it is very difficult for companies to surpass the country.

It doesn’t talk about the absolute comparison of force, the amount of resources it possesses, whether it can be self-sufficient, etc.

If large companies want to replace the state, the first priority is development. However, it is the state that has the final say on whether to allow large companies to prosper. This feels a bit controversial.

Moreover, the public must collectively pledge allegiance to large companies rather than the current political system. The public also needs to value companies more than the country, so as to create a situation where companies are greater than the country. However, so far, few private companies can achieve this.

After all, using products to increase user stickiness, except for a small number of extremely die-hard fans, loyalty and trust cannot really compete with the country.

So for now, private companies can't do anything against the state. The soil for their survival cannot be separated from the state. Countermeasures against large companies by various capable countries have already been launched and are becoming more and more complete. Anti-monopoly legislation is One of the most common methods.

Some multinational companies will not only be punished by other countries, sometimes even local companies will be punished, and the punishment is not small.

What is happening now is that they have gained a lot of experience. A private company based in a small African country actually defeated the United States, and it was militarily.

It is really not easy for the United States to sanction Falcon International. Africa, a place with constant wars, is a natural hotbed for the development of security groups like Falcon International. It can accept all kinds of orders. Its development is not like other companies, where it is controlled by others. Not much.

Moreover, there will be some barefoot countries that are not afraid of wearing shoes and will not pay attention to the United States. It is like that anyway.

Falcon International is based in Africa, and at most it is involved in the war-torn areas of the Middle East. This has little impact on the stable big countries in the surrounding areas for the time being. Moreover, this incident of Falcon International has clearly told them: just add money. It's too late if you don't recharge, bro.

So when those countries with the conditions began to focus on developing technology and their own strength, and had no time to think about other things, Falcon International officially embarked on the road of internationalization.

But fortunately, it’s not too much. The big countries are all eyeing the world’s number one position, and Falcon International is just taking over the work of small countries. Those small countries are easy to forget.

Although the country is small, it has a lot of things going on. Not only is it not peaceful at home, there are also pirates at sea.

At first, they did not let Falcon International directly take over the defense, but they paid Falcon International to fight against the domestic anti-government forces and pirates, and the results were good. They did it cleanly, without ink, and did not do anything outside the contract, so they also It is becoming more and more acceptable to pay private companies to do security and defense.

Later, some small island countries that relied on tourism to develop their economies simply authorized all the defense of the three armed forces to Falcon International. The defense of these small countries was just that. The main threat came from pirates at sea. The problem of piracy Seriously affecting the development of domestic fisheries and tourism.

And what happened with Falcon International really frightened the pirates in the surrounding area. It was obviously a tiger, but it had to pretend to be a house cat. Isn't this embarrassing?

The pirates who had originally collected the money came right to their doorstep to refund their money, and some even ran away when they heard that Falcon International was coming.

Anyway, the world is such a big place. Wherever you go, robbing is not robbery. At worst, you have to fight with the local pirate organization, which is better than Falcon International.

It's just that Falcon International currently has a small number of ships and security personnel, so the scope of business development is not very rapid. It is only developing in the surrounding areas of the East Gulf of Africa and has not reached out to other places yet.

Falcon International is also looking for buyers for its trophies. Considering the cost-effectiveness issue, Falcon International does not plan to sell the "dead fish ships" directly. Instead, it plans to repair them before buying them, so that it can be sold for more money. .

So they just put the news out and started looking for buyers, and their technical maintenance department has already begun to inspect and repair the ship.

A nuclear-powered steam catapult aircraft carrier, two missile cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-submarine frigate, two attack submarines and a supply ship. These are all good things that other countries want, and they are all first-class in the world. of ships.

On the surface, the United States is opposed to it, but it has taken no concrete action.

There are also many people who make small moves within them. Some private arms companies and shipyards will do anything if they want to get more orders.

Under such circumstances, time has entered the legendary 2020.

In the new year, countries, companies, and individuals all have new plans, let alone 2020, which represents the future.

This year should have been a carnival for the earth's space industry, because many countries' space programs are related to this year, but unfortunately, a big space crash happened years ago, and now no one can get out.

Arclight Aerospace's first garbage disposal ship has begun work. The efficiency of cleaning up garbage is very fast, but if you want to launch spacecraft as freely as before, you have to wait for two years.