The purpose of liberalism is to control technology and technical knowledge. 'Private corporations' are silos for technical knowledge. 'Free trade' is about using power asymmetries to keep other states underdeveloped. 'Intellectual property' is used to stop knowledge transfer.
The international system works like this: You must adopt core liberal tenets for isolating technical knowledge before we can share it with you. That means 'free markets', 'intellectual property', etc. You must adopt the containment system before gaining access to the knowledge.
The rest of the liberal system is about how to view technology (and science) and how to use it. You must not read any kind of teleology into science and technology. Technology is all 'happy accidents' created in the 'pursuit of profit'. Science exposes the world as meaningless.
The application of technology, under liberalism, is directed towards the establishment of liberal hegemony (expanding the system of containment) and individualistic-hedonism (ensuring that nobody reads direction or purpose into scientific revelation and technological progress).
Liberalism also supplies a revisionist history of science and technology where it makes itself the engine of their development via its supposed 'freedom from dogma' and claims that it remains the engine of innovation. The world's longest running disinformation campaign!
