What does a government do that a company can also not do, theoretically? I think that government is an arbitrary label.
"Legitimately" use aggressive force.
A company could also use force that would evoke quotations around "legitimately." A company could lull a nation into complacency.
I think the world is in a state of AnCap. I see the government as one big company that "extorts" people for money and prints its own money too. They take polls of the population and try to (or at least appear to) act in the best interest of the public. The list goes on.
Could it be that AnCappers are just angry at how powerful and irrational and immoral this company is and seek an alternative? Do they want to just hit the reset button on society so that their version of power distribution gets a fair chance?
What does a government do that a company can also not do, theoretically? I think that government is an arbitrary label.
The world is increasingly neither anarchic nor capitalistic, which is the difference. Seeing the government as one big company at the commanding heights of the economy is of course what you are meant to see, since this is the conceit that holds sway in this era. But this phenom (governments centrally planning and directing substantial portions of economic "investments"- my how the leftists have poisoned the well with that word) is known more customarily as state capitalism, corporatism, and fascism.
Of course I don't generally like what the government does, but what keeps a company from doing exactly the same things you list as bad?
Is it just that AnCap proposes more evenly distributed power, and calls it something else? I think that would be nice as well.