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It would be easier to limit companies to fewer than 200 employees Edit: just a passing thought, I don't advocate for any of these ideas. Just complaining, I ha

It would be easier to limit companies to fewer than 200 employees Edit: just a passing thought, I don't advocate for any of these ideas. Just complaining, I have no answers

xyzelement 3y ago
How many people do you think are involved in creating the phone or computer you are writing this on?
- fullarr 3y ago
  That's not an excuse to continue I'm not even anti-corporation, but to pretend everything is fine seems silly
  - xyzelement 3y ago
    I find this "I don't feel good about X, so I am going to propose abolishing X without realizing all the consequences of that" vibe silly and dangerous. From my car to my computer to the clothes I wear, to the medical equipment for my kids' births, etc - everything was produced, sourced, and sold, by a fairly large organization that has optimized for delivering that thing to me. Both the necessities and the comforts of my life are powered by this - and same with you unless you're pretty much living off the land. If you don't like Amazon having your data, or whatever your issue is, don't use Amazon.
    - fullarr 3y ago
      I literally said I'm not in support of my own dumb idea I know things are more complicated You, however, need a mirror. Everything you just said is a wonderful display of willful ignorance. Your head in the sand does not protect you from the world Big Tech, in 2023, is effectively a governmental body. I mean all 7 (or whatever) of the largest companies. They operate in a wildly anti-competitive and anti-free-market way, rivaling even the Railroad tycoons of a bygone era. I'm not anti-corporation, but there needs to be some effort put into correcting this. It's not going to fix itself. Our country would be a lot better off with a lot of small businesses rather than a few gigantic businesses.
      - xyzelement 3y ago
        // Our country would be a lot better off with a lot of small businesses rather than a few gigantic businesses. Is that true? Plenty (in fact, arguably most) countries have a much smaller ratio of "big" to "small" companies and many of those are not "a lot better off" than our country and quite to the contrary. So I don't buy this assumption.
mensetmanusman 3y ago
Would need a world government to enforce, else China would dominate with huge firms.

It would be easier to limit companies to fewer than 200 employees Edit: just a passing thought, I don't advocate for any of these ideas. Just complaining, I have no answers

xyzelement 3y ago

How many people do you think are involved in creating the phone or computer you are writing this on?

fullarr 3y ago
That's not an excuse to continue I'm not even anti-corporation, but to pretend everything is fine seems silly
- xyzelement 3y ago
  I find this "I don't feel good about X, so I am going to propose abolishing X without realizing all the consequences of that" vibe silly and dangerous. From my car to my computer to the clothes I wear, to the medical equipment for my kids' births, etc - everything was produced, sourced, and sold, by a fairly large organization that has optimized for delivering that thing to me. Both the necessities and the comforts of my life are powered by this - and same with you unless you're pretty much living off the land. If you don't like Amazon having your data, or whatever your issue is, don't use Amazon.
  - fullarr 3y ago
    I literally said I'm not in support of my own dumb idea I know things are more complicated You, however, need a mirror. Everything you just said is a wonderful display of willful ignorance. Your head in the sand does not protect you from the world Big Tech, in 2023, is effectively a governmental body. I mean all 7 (or whatever) of the largest companies. They operate in a wildly anti-competitive and anti-free-market way, rivaling even the Railroad tycoons of a bygone era. I'm not anti-corporation, but there needs to be some effort put into correcting this. It's not going to fix itself. Our country would be a lot better off with a lot of small businesses rather than a few gigantic businesses.
    - xyzelement 3y ago
      // Our country would be a lot better off with a lot of small businesses rather than a few gigantic businesses. Is that true? Plenty (in fact, arguably most) countries have a much smaller ratio of "big" to "small" companies and many of those are not "a lot better off" than our country and quite to the contrary. So I don't buy this assumption.

mensetmanusman 3y ago

Would need a world government to enforce, else China would dominate with huge firms.