Without a nation-state to subsidise protecting the financial interests of the shareholders against the Board, the Boards' against the managers, and the managers' against the workers, there will be few and tiny corporations.

not as long as they don't claim a violence monopoly over land that they don't legitimately own and improve. which is much tougher when you have neighbors (corporate or persons) who don't appreciate you "claiming" their land by force. without such a monopoly, these corporations don't have the same ...