Gil Duran, that‘s the same guy who also ran the recent Balaji story on „cleansing the blues“ out of SF.

> Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity.

I prefer Malka Older's vision, with competition between democratic and corporate realms (see https://www.goodreads.com/series/194579-centenal-cycle). However, having noticed Moldbug et al over the years, I suspect their model got traction now.