Let's really dig into this. Monopolies are bad, but I wouldn't clamp down on the size of companies per se. There is a much more clever thing to do: Managers wa

Let's really dig into this. Monopolies are bad, but I wouldn't clamp down on the size of companies per se. There is a much more clever thing to do: Managers wanting to seem self-important, and speculation-prone owners, are too obsessed with growth and seek to maximize revenue. Even maximizing profit is still meh, because that still creates some incentive for growth. What we really want companies to maximize is profit / revenue, or profit / employee. In other words, productivity for productivity's sake. BTW, co-ops are generally great, and already have the incentive to maximize profit / employee. Perfect! But how do we get non-employee owned companies to do the same? Tax them based off of revenue rather than profit. Then they will only grow if they don't need to burn productivity in the process. Yes, capital expenditures no longer have the nice side benefit of reducing profit, but the incentive for productivity makes up for it. Also, it's fair because stupid things like income tax are effective taxing revenue rather than profit, and finally it's also way simpler to levy / harder to evade.