Other times people manage to elect effective representatives, as in Britain during the 1950s. Consequently, the nation state has become more of a hindrance than a benefit to the modern mega- corporation. Small, weak nations are more amenable to rape and pillage by corporate developers, and the Third World is the elite's prototype of how they'd like the whole world to operate. Public infrastructures and institutions are being dismantled, and control is being turned over to elite corporate hands. Big-time history is happening in front of our eyes, and only the collatoral changes are being noted.
Citizenship is to be replaced by the roles of employee and consumer.
The last thing you see in Third-World countries is freedom and prosperity. When all nations have been whittled down and made weak, then the world will have become essentially a patchwork of plantation-states. And with modern weaponry under the command of the elite, there will be no possibility of the people arising anew in revolution.