Remember the big memo leak of Citicorp saying they were above the law and were becoming a Plutonomy?
Citation?
I don't think it would take a googleplex amount of money to do so. The GWP is only like 50 trillion dollars or so.
As far as I know, there isn't a law that prevents World Dominations. The closet we had was Germany twice and Japan.
Though I doubt heavily if you could do it legally. There are host of laws and regulations both International and domestic that regulate, control and limit various aspects of power. From mutations laws, to market control laws ect.
Eventually you'll need to contest a countries sovereignty. This isn't illegal. Countries are allowed to go to war. Corporation which has ties with no sovereignty would be interesting though. Corporations (And you'd have to be a corp of some sort if aren't a country) are treated as a meta person. A singular entity when under laws. I don't believe a singular person can declare a legal war.
So things like the Geneva Conventions wouldn't apply to you, and various other UN resolutions also wouldn't apply to your Corp. So exploding shells, chemical warfare ect... can be used legally against you.
You couldn't take on the 1st world nations at first or ever. They're mostly allied with one another and have a strong standing military. They also have something that you and your corp would have a hard time doing so.
Renewable continual resources. A country through internal competition generates a lot of wealth and its mineral & monetary wealth is generally very mighty. It has a ready means to continue doing so and land resources to do so as well. As soon you declared war, any asset known about probably be ceased through the world and shut down.
So I think no matter how it starts as, it'll boil down to an endurance match were actual countries have an advantage here that will be hard if impossible to match or out match.
So if you took on a none aligned world. There slots of them in South East Asia, Africa and South America. It would just be an expensive endeavor no matter how its done. It also take /alot/ of time to reconstruct and/or reshift their economy to support your agenda. This is assuming that there wouldn't be continual internal strife.
So overall I think it would just be impractical and impossible in a modern world. I also think it would be impossible to due so in a lifetime.
But yea there no law strictly saying 'No taking over the world!'. However, I find it hard press to do so illegally. Eventually you'll break a law on some level somewhere to do so.
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