**Whilst corporations have undoubtedly grown in global influence over the last century, states remain as the enablers for the abhorrent behaviours that certain organisations display.** Indeed, multinational corporations have the global influence that most individual states lack to oppress a greater number of people. Despite this, it should be noted that corporations operate _within_ states and are therefore subject to their national laws. As such, no oppression can occur without the complicity of the states themselves. For example: • [Apple](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths) has been sued for sourcing the cobalt used for their rechargeable lithium batteries from forced labour mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, places which also lead to the maiming and deaths of several children. However, Apple most likely would not have been able to continue these practices if the state officials cared more about their people and less about fuelling their own corruption. • [Amazon](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/09/us-workers-amazon-unions) has been heavily criticised for forbidding their US workers from forming unions. Regardless, one could argue that it is the [US’ decades-long hostility](https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/history_of_labor_unions.html) towards workers’ unions that has bred the conditions for Amazon to act in this way. • Although companies such as [Costco and Walmart](https://stories.mightyearth.org/amazonfires/index.html) play an active role in the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, which threatens the indigenous communities as well as the environment, it is the policies of Brazil’s populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, which has rapidly increased the rate of deforestation to a [12-year high](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/01/amazon-deforestation-surges-to-12-year-high-under-bolsonaro). Thus, in terms of the capacity for oppression, states and corporates are relatively equal threats.