But this is a company, no? I mean, you can also find such charts in companies of freer markets.
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Every china company chart looks like this now!
But this company used to be the darling of the Chinese economy, until the Party decided to disappear its CEO for three months after he made a mild critique of the Chinese banking system and government, right when the company was about to go public, which then the government forbid. He lost control of the company de facto and has been mainly overseas ever since then. To no avail because last year he was finally made to step down anyway.
Oh, interesting, I didn't know any of that.
I guess that is slightly worse than just having a million regulations and taxes and preventing any company from being successful while favoring the corrupt companies that specialize in paying the bills of the ruling class and politicians?
Well, in a still nominally communist country like China the esthetics of power allow the Party to simply seize the means of production and "directly manage" a company as a way to achieve the Party's ideological goals. In a country like the US, which is a nominal democracy (but a Corporatist State regime in nature) the Party has to use indirect but equally powerful ways to do the same. But generally speaking, it will be content with "directing" the economy and letting the planning and managing to the private sector. The true power of the Corporatist State, like the 1920's fascists learnt, is that it hers to dictate what "the social/common/greater/ higher good" is. That is, where is the ideological line which, should the private sector dare paint outside of it, unleashes the crude coercion apparatus.