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It is getting harder to distinguish brands from nation-states.
The resemblance is not simply semiotics: logos and flags, anthems and jingles, taglines and mottoes, mission statements and constitutions, founder stories and official histories, terms and conditions and legal codes.
Nor is it just structures: customers and citizens, shareholders and legislators, boards of directors and executives, chairpeople and monarchs, CEOs and presidents, oversight boards and judges.
It is not even just size, although the comparisons are startling:
Walmart employs about the population of Botswana; Microsoft’s market capitalization is greater than Brazil’s GDP; FedEx has five times more planes than Air India.
The more substantial resemblance derives
If brands have the power, wealth and impact of nation-states, should they not, like countries, be held to account for what they really are: equals, allies, competitors and threats, Ben Schott asks
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