The boardroom coup of 2006: a history

Based on this fanciful idea, here is what future history books could have to say about this troubled period:
In 2001, Thaksin was elected Prime Minister of Thailand. He quickly and successfully used his power to transform Thailand’s flourishing democracy into a corporation called “Thailand Inc”.
The prime minister became a CEO and the citizens became consumers, employees and shareholders.
As a CEO, Thaksin adopted a very paternalistic management style. Labour unions were frowned upon, but it also had its perks: The company paid for all employees’ insurance (and that of their dependants). The pitfalls of such a paternalistic management style are well-known: over-staffing and poor performance are the norms.
In time, a growing number of dissatisfied customers organised themselves in an association called the PAD (Prolonged Alliance for Dismissal). The majority shareholders also became preoccupied with the long-term competitiveness of Thailand Inc.
The PAD, majority shareholders and labour unions started to suggest that the CEO should resign. CEO Thaksin refused on the basis that a majority of customers were satisfied. In the end, the majority shareholders had no choice but to fire him. When he refused to leave, they had to call security.
Thailand Inc was officially closed in 2006. Several attempts to replace it with yellow-shirt democracy and red-shirt democracy were unsuccessful. (These two obsolete forms of democracy will be studied in more details in your course on Political Science in Chapter 5: The role of propaganda in the resurfacing of old ideas).
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Candide