Intergalactic Summit

Yes, as others have said our major sources of income are given to us by baseliners. There is not one capsuleer who can bring into circulation a single kredit. Not even a tenth of a kredit. Rather, the kredits that do exist in capsuleer hands are circulated in exchange for goods and services. The original source of these kredits, however, are entirely rooted in the baseliners. CONCORD bounties, contract payouts from megacorporate agents, and all such things are the sole source of liquid kredits.

Now, it would be entirely possible for capsuleers to create their own currency and start using that, though they'd also have to create a very sophisticated banking system and ways to track such a currency. At this point capsuleers could build whatever they needed in the dark corners of 0.0, using their own blueprints and minerals extracted from their sovereignty, and trade such goods with whatever currency they made up. The Empires and CONCORD would have no say over this, though of course such an alliance would have to appease (or for those so inclined coerce, though I can't see how that would turn out well) its baseline shipyard workers and the like to keep order in place.

I think a good group of capsuleers to ask further on this subject would be the wormhole-dwellers. Cut off from stations and any sources of liquid kredits, they mine from the hidden asteroids and build what they need to at their own starbases. Or perhaps they just find a wormhole back to Empire space and buy there, but I can't imagine that being easy. Point being, it would be possible for capsuleers to go off and do their own thing, but it would require a level of organization that, again, only the Empires and pirate groups wield. And judging by the sorts of conversations that go on in Local, I can't fathom capsuleers becoming that conscientious on such a large scale any time soon.

I have no doubt the combined might of the CFC fleet could take that - but not without significant cost to yourselves, and not without losing some of the nullsec territories you've fought so hard to win. Besides, I highly doubt that CONCORD would stand idly by in the event of such an incursion, and the Amarr and Caldari militia capsuleer fleets would likely throw their weight in as well.

Lastly, I strongly doubt that it was the entire Domain fleet. The Amarr do like to put on a show, but they aren't by any means stupid - they wouldn't deprive their own core region of its entire defensive fleet during a war with the Minmatar Republic. I strongly suspect what we saw was a large fraction of the fleet, but not its entirety.

That was what I was responding to. The CFC outnumbers the fleet shown on the clip.

If we're going to be fighting the entire Imperial fleet, dearest Mittens is going to call the HBC. And that will be a fight for history.

There's more about corporation than just money. And not all profits can be measured by them.
For example, in some systems a rich manager could buy himself a good position. But no money can make him more smarter or competent. And thus his money and position will only hurt corporation by not having more competent employee in his place.

Capsuleers are part of machines, we are just reusable spaceship controlling modules, our corporation and alliance-managing skills are very basic (what we would call 'empire control' a baseliner would call 'a small company'), so just do your job and let more competent and trained personnel take control over corporations.