If large companies were actually making things worse, then just getting rid of them would be sufficient to make things better. That's the definition of making something worse. So tell me: would getting rid of large companies make things better or not?
It would make things better for the general public due to increased competition, better working conditions, and faster more agile innovation.
It would make things worse for the stockholders and politicians relying on political contributions from those individuals.
There is a natural lack of scalability of the number of competing firms because most line of business have an inherent minimal size; if it takes 20 people to run a 1000 foot long printing press, shrinking the firm below 20 or so suddenly starts making things worse not better. Another good example would be a mine.
It doesn't seem terribly controversial that there exists a maxima in total human happiness where average business size is a vaguely tribal number depending on individual line of business. The other extreme of infinity sized firms or 100% of the population is just re-imagined communism or feudalism and its not overly controversial to claim that historically those systems really sucked.
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If large companies were actually making things worse, then just getting rid of them would be sufficient to make things better. That's the definition of making something worse. So tell me: would getting rid of large companies make things better or not?
It would make things better for the general public due to increased competition, better working conditions, and faster more agile innovation.
It would make things worse for the stockholders and politicians relying on political contributions from those individuals.
There is a natural lack of scalability of the number of competing firms because most line of business have an inherent minimal size; if it takes 20 people to run a 1000 foot long printing press, shrinking the firm below 20 or so suddenly starts making things worse not better. Another good example would be a mine.
It doesn't seem terribly controversial that there exists a maxima in total human happiness where average business size is a vaguely tribal number depending on individual line of business. The other extreme of infinity sized firms or 100% of the population is just re-imagined communism or feudalism and its not overly controversial to claim that historically those systems really sucked.