The extent to which a business, in the current context, deviates from these behaviors is precisely the extent to which it is vulnerable to activist investors an

The extent to which a business, in the current context, deviates from these behaviors is precisely the extent to which it is vulnerable to activist investors and other hyper-capitalists taking it over and liquidating it in favor of a more "efficient" model. Its no coincidence that these very sectors (locally owned businesses) are being squeezed out of the markets - they aren't "rational" enough.