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The reason we don't have elephant sized beetles running around and causing apocalypse on earth is the laws of physics limit the size bugs can be. A creature can try to be larger than that, but it starts to run up against things that mean it becomes less survivable. A giant cow sized insect would be mostly exoskeleton and so there's so little room for internal organs and the like that it wouldn't be able to survive, let alone move under its own power.

I've always thought that global megacorps are the same -- they can only exist because we've created artificial conditions, such as a false oxygen concentration via central banking, and false low gravity through separating shareholders from liability for the actions of companies, or giving them additional powers they ought not to have through corporate personhood. We've helped these giant insects survive as well through an artificial circulatory system by having the largest military in human history keeping most trade routes safe so companies don't need to (at taxpayer expense, of course). Remove just a few artificial supports, and like a cow shaped beetle, the global megacorp becomes too cumbersome to move, with too much armor to contain anything of substance.