The US Government spending is an order of magnitude bigger than the largest private companies in the world...

WalMart is the largest private spender in the world at around ~$400B per year. The US Federal Government alone spends >$400B per month...

That doesn't even include state and local governments which basically doubles that.

That and I can choose not to directly do business with a company without having to upend my entire life. Also none of them have armies. Not that I'm a libertarian or something, just gotta remember that the big nations are very clearly more powerful than corporations.

>That and I can choose not to directly do business with a company without having to upend my entire life.

I could easily see a self-employed Google user who decided to cut all ties with Google basically having to build a new life from scratch.

It'd mean directing people to a new email address, downloading stuff out of Drive, and maybe not advertising via Google. That doesn't seem like a lot. If your job is YouTube content creation, you'd need a new job, but you also had to make specific choices to end up there.

The German government can put you in prison. The US government can do that, and additionally can even kill you.

And the French can bomb your ship, even if they're not competent enough to hide that they're the ones who did it.