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"Bigger, bigger, bigger. Better, right? We’ve lionized big, mega, huge-scale —
businesses, institutions, organizations — over medium, small, and tiny. So much
so, that for example, American legal and economic thought tends to favour the
hugest monopolies, the playing field tilted way, way against small-scale
organizations, because the idea is that the biggest scale gives people the
lowest prices (hence, a nation where Walmart is one of the largest employers,
and where every industry is ultra concentrated into monopoly, whether Comcast
or Google or Nike.)
Ah, but. That’s not all large-scale organizations give people, is it? They also
seem to bring with them a host of problems, too — like mistrust, greed, the
replacement of social values with market values, inequality, pollution,
conformity, staleness, and a kind of soft authoritarianism, a kind of corrosion
of the spirit that results from huge power imbalances (you will do it our way!
submit!!).
So. Was privileging mega-scale organizations a wise choice? Or should we strive
now to build economies upon what I’ll call human scale institutions? To explain
what that means, I’ll start with a little story."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
