The corporations being more powerful than nations is a thing, but is tangential. Corporations are controlled by charter and regulations of the nation they incorporate in and are accountable on more fronts than an individual actor. This is a discussion of what happens when individuals have access to state-scale resources of their own personal possession.

Tons of corporations are worth a billion dollars, many more than individual humans are worth a billion dollars, and the implications and side effects of each controlling such large centralized capital differ substantially because of the rules of business they each abide by.