Corporations as Modern-Day Warlords

Read carefully between the lines, for all this will come to pass.

Let me start by offering an apology to all those whose blood pressure will skyrocket upon reading this thought experiment. As we all know, science--the real thing, not "science"--advances via informed skepticism and experimentation. Some useful experiments can begin as gedanken, thought experiments.

That said, please keep whatever emergency meds you migh…