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junonlast Monday at 8:50 AM1 replyview on HN

It depends on how you quantify it, which isn't really possible and isn't even the point of the comment.

It really feels like you're being intentionally obtuse here. The point was that they seem to be impervious to many governments. That would be having, by at least some measure, more power than the government.

They weren't meaning they were literal comparisons of amounts of power.


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abtinflast Monday at 2:09 PM

You’re upset because I won’t help you evade the fact that you are intentionally conflating two distinct concepts:

“Power” meaning the infliction violence and physical coercion with the force of law.

“Power” meaning the ability to make money by designing products and services people voluntary trade for.

This is always an intentional confusion intended to deceive and manipulate.

See also https://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/economic_power_vs_politic...

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