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I've been reading and discussing Turchin for over a decade with interested pseudo-intellections like myself. I sense there could be a "loop hole" preventing di
by bsenftner 6y ago
I've been reading and discussing Turchin for over a decade with interested pseudo-intellections like myself.
I sense there could be a "loop hole" preventing disaster by recognizing a partial solution to the elite overproduction problem: cap the scale of organizations, forcing corporations, states and other larger entities to bifurcate into multiple smaller entities that must now compete to continue to exist.
Do this across the board, breaking up every larger entity into smaller entities. This provides roles for the large numbers of "elites" as well as provides a place for lackluster elites to drift out to pasture with other less aggressive organizations catering to their less aggressive demographics. This also forces economic efficiency, because the larger corporate and other giant institutions are filled with bloat-scale inefficiencies. This would also create product and service diversity, as well as force multi-organization cooperation at a scale rarely seen today.
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- mmastrac 6y agoImagine how much room there would be if we broke up Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Having another decade of cut-throat tech competition might be good for us.
- aschatten 6y agoWhy break up though? I believe there are ways to allow smaller companies compete against giants efficiently.
- bsenftner 6y agoThe point is to place a cap on the scale of organizations, enabling multiple smaller entities to provide the same services as the original larger organization, but with increased competition at all levels because the large organization's bloat and efficiencies of scale are eliminated. Part of the goal here is to remove efficiencies of scale because they suppress widespread employment as well as opportunity for individual skills advancement. Large scale providers eliminate employment opportunities and the skills advancement that goes with them simply because their scale eliminates any other players that could exist in the market.