I don't know why hiraghm was "thumbed down" on this comment. It's obviously as accurate a truism as the inverse view. I can't think of any "box" store that is not ran like government at some level. Not the "hand out" welfare side, more like the military, including the language, minus the violence. <br /><br />I know that the founders of those corps. did not start out with that as a goal. If anything you might find them as closer to a dictatorship. We see phrases like "a strong hand at the tiller" and "a fearlessly driven commander in charge". exactly the same phrases you see in the press describing dictatorships. <br /><br />Yet even with the very dictatorial beginnings of private enterprises, as companies grow from a single person making all decisions to the eventual boardroom there is evolution toward democracy and begins to display the tenants of altruism..