"Corporate headquarters are easily moved, and Corporate income is easily shifted between corporations and individuals in different tax jurisdictions all over the world."
This is a consequence of policy choices, not some inherent natural law.
This is a consequence of policy choices, not some inherent natural law.
Incorporated entities are intangible. They are just ideas. They don't have to exist in any particular geographical area.
Go with China’s approach? Capital controls? Appropriating companies that try and move to other countries?
Generally economies that do that don’t perform well over the long run.
I'm not going to claim I have the solution. Anyone who tells you they do is either deluded or has something to sell you. And that definitely includes those who want you to believe that modern capitalism is the end-all be-all of society.
What I want is to stop the self-imposed helplessness. What are some things that might work? How can we validate them? How can we roll them out?
Saying "Somebody should solve this problem" while simultaneously saying "I don't have a solution, but we should stop the self-imposed helplessness" isn't really saying much at all.