> Somehow we should discourage large companies and create a system that favors more smaller companies. At risk of a very low-information me-too comment... Yes

> Somehow we should discourage large companies and create a system that favors more smaller companies. At risk of a very low-information me-too comment... Yes, this. I'm finding it very hard to place myself on the "political spectrum" to even label what my beliefs are or find allies to join forces with. If you could sum up my (economic at least) political thoughts on the matter it would be "whatever system results in lots of small merchants competing in a market that does not allow for huge monopolies to exist". I want thousands of 100 person companies competing, not one giant Google. How realistic that is, is of course a very open-ended question - and certainly some problems exist with the theory when you need to get "scale" projects done that require large organizations of people. I still have no idea what political or economic system that is, but I believe that's the balance where we optimize both for economic security as well as the human need for agency. For now, I simply try to vote anti-monopoly as much as I can, but in recent decades that doesn't mean much as no one is even talking about breaking up these giant telecoms/media companies/etc.