In the old days, a King would grant a favoured vassal a legal monopoly on the provision of some sort of goods or services; but nowadays the rulers inject invisible subsidies - at the early stages, and for many years, to ensure the success of those corporations that they wish to establish as a part of the totalitarian system.
These vast subsidies are concealed by fairy-tales about how mega-corps were founded by a rag-tag band of eccentric college dropouts who had a bright idea, working from their Mum's front parlour.
They then launched some tiny start-up that (somehow) made no money for many years; yet (somehow) managed to expand more and more, recruit more and more people, and (because their service was so incredibly cheap (or, amazingly, provided "free" at point of use!)...
And eventually these supposed genius slackers (somehow) ended-up with a large-majority market-share in an enormous new business...
At which point they (suddenly!) become one of the biggest, wealthiest, most powerful corporations in the history of the world - and dictate to nation states and international organizations alike.
Such is the immense power of invisible subsidy.
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