Large multinational corporations are standing in the way of progress in a way not seen since the gilded age. Hmmm, I understand the sentiment, but geeze,

Large multinational corporations are standing in the way of progress in a way not seen since the gilded age. Hmmm, I understand the sentiment, but geeze, how I cannot agree with that statement. Yes, operating within confines of someone else's corporation, or beneath the general corporate regime in general, is stifling, and you, yourself, and I, myself, are unlikely to benefit as handsomely as those whom are in control of the corporation or their regime. But I wouldn't say progress-in-general is being held back by large corporations. I also wouldn't say that Apple locking up 250B in a bank account represents them withholding the freedom of others to operate, by blowing that kind of cash frivolously, and putting it back into economic circulation. I'd say it's their windfall, and they've clearly been saving up for the next big leap they're about to take. If anything, progress is moving right along at kind of an insane pace. Almost too fast. Kind of too fast. I get that certain avenues of progress have been held back, and one might draw a correlation between internal combustion and leaded gas in the 20th century, and file sharing and proprietary software in the 21st century, but these examples are narrow in scope. When you step back, look at the whole picture, and take the way things are today, and hold that up, next to the way things were 20 or 40 years ago, the differences are kind of shocking. Things are radically different, showing drastic changes between each generation. Sometimes I think if we went faster, everything would burst into flames just from the ambient friction of social upheaval incidental to rapid change.