Governments compete with each other as well, and they still have a monopoly on force in the territory they govern. The owners of corporations do not have to compete for power over the corporations they own.
> Autocracy would be better for governments too, if countries were smaller and people could freely move between them.
Yes, they do compete, but changing a country isn't as easy as switching a car brand.
I don't value democracy. I value freedom and prosperity. I think democracy has become too holy to criticize.
I think the perfect world would consist of small autocratic city-states. There would be a single monarch in each city-state who chooses which laws are implemented. Laws would be on Github, everyone could suggest patches or fork them, and the monarch would just have to choose which set of laws they want to implement. Lots of people would collaborate on the laws in an open-source manner. Citizens could easily check which laws are implemented in each city-state, and choose where they want to live. I think something like this would be better than huge countries with democracy.
> Autocracy would be better for governments too, if countries were smaller and people could freely move between them.
Not if you value democracy in and of itself.