Thanks for your response. I lean that way as well. Big Tech has butted heads with congress on a few occasions over the past few years, but they certainly seem to be doing their best to curry favor with the democrats lately.

I don't see them as part of the 'official' government. Possibly a 'shadow' government? Lately many, especially the tech sector, have been functioning as a wing of the Democratic party.

She would see them like Orren Boyle.

Klaus Schwab’s wet dream has something about converting companies from stockholder ownership to stakeholder ownership. I know what I think that means. But, I don’t believe they think it means, what I think it means.

I think she would see them as being part of the Government.

Yes for communism.
No for fascism, the big corps already do as they are told by burn-loot-murder and the carbon nuts. See, corporate responsibility, triple bottom line, serving all stakeholders, blahblah ..

Nationalization of the big corporations will be the next step, if it isn’t already occurring.

My problem is what a favorite trader of mine labels "Govopoly". I don't mind corporations. I don't like lobbying (bribes), especially when they do it. That's like the veterinarian bribing the farmer to drug his animals and totally screw them up with no recourse. No...seriously, that's just what it's like. You're the livestock.

That said, if you understand Govopoly and something called "political intelligence" you can make a lot of money in the markets.

So you are saying that the person who has the idea to make a product that people will buy, should be able to control the direction of their company? Great point. I think the progressives should be notified that
one man or woman should chart their own destiny.

I have wondered what Ayn Rand would think of Facebook, Google, etc. Would she see these organizations and their creators as the modern Rearden Steel and Hank Rearden? Or would she see them more as Jim Taggart?

I disagree with that as a generality for a number of reasons but there is sense in it.
There are some things that only natural persons can do-
eg. own a driver's license, get married ..
There are things that corps are allowed to do that should be stopped-
for one, short selling,
and how about trading in shares generally?

This limited liability can be a good thing. Problem is when amounts of money are very large, that is when it is other people's money, and where there are rake-offs, but losses are borne by individuals who have not authorized tricky transactions.
It must be constrained.