Comment by vbezhenar
1 month ago
These are basics of capitalism.
Company aims for profit.
Bigger scale allows for better efficiency.
So companies naturally grow big. The bigger they are, the easier for them to compete.
Big companies have access to tremendous resources, so they can push laws by bribing law makers, advertising their agenda to the masses.
There's no way around it, not without dismantling capitalism. Nations will serve to the corporations, no other way around.
There are natural boundaries of the growth scale, which are related to the inherent efficiency of communications between people and overall human capability. Corporations are controlled by people and people have limited brains and mouths. I feel that with AI development, those boundaries will move apart and allow for even greater growth eventually.
> There's no way around it
Yes there is, the population passing laws to regulate this. The problem is though, that most people don't understand and don't care enough until its too late.
Or forcibly taking over a factory.
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Bigger scale allows for better efficiency.
This is dogma, not proven fact, and most people that argue this tend to use self-serving metrics and a tailored definition of "efficient". Some counterexamples: early Google was much more efficient in responding to market changes than the current top-heavy organization; small hospitals tend to have better health outcomes (both per patient and per dollar) than large chains. Tesla was able to innovate much faster than established behemoths.
I think you mean "nimble", "versatile", or "agile". None of these imply efficiency in the same sense economy of scale does (ie cost to produce a single deliverable unit).
There are good examples, though—you can produce a single gold ring a lot cheaper than you can produce a one-of-a-trillion of them, cuz at some point you simply run out of gold. Another example is running into a cap in demand. Classic sigmoid vs exponential patterns.