From what I read here on HN, this book describes Google.
Every organization is inflexible, you need a swarm of organization to be flexible. That is the main difference between the state and the private sector, the private sector is a herd.
in this metaphor, every organization is a state.
You mean every state is an organization so they share many traits that all organizations have? I don't see why you would go the other way.
I phrased that badly.
I was trying to say that any monopoly organization will have similar dysfunctions that a state has.
My thought is that states aren't dysfunctional primarily because they're states, but because they're monopolies.