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Thought experiment: what if the US government limited companies to a maximum number of employees, say 5000? There would be new inefficiencies, but it might dec
by cpeterso 8y ago
Thought experiment: what if the US government limited companies to a maximum number of employees, say 5000?
There would be new inefficiencies, but it might decrease the possibility or impact of monopolies and encourage competition. There would be a lot more specialized contractor companies. How much of, say, Google's search service or Microsoft Windows could be maintained or developed with just 5000 people?
- xeromal 8y agoThere would be 5000 car manufacturers
- true_religion 8y agoWe would end up with massive conglomerates who owned 500+ companies of 4999 people, and if that didn't work you'd just get simple collusion where everyone knows company A and B are owned by the same person so they try to cooperate even without being explicitly ordered to.
- wgerard 8y agoIt would likely just encourage convoluted corporate structures that would function more-or-less equivalently to the ones we have today.