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cheers, a vivid and lucid description of the dynamics. i’ve been thinking along these lines in relation to business and economy, toward a conclusion that our e
by clairity 6y ago
cheers, a vivid and lucid description of the dynamics.
i’ve been thinking along these lines in relation to business and economy, toward a conclusion that our economic policy should be principally geared toward encouraging medium-sized ($10-50MM) and focused businesses, which provides plenty of reward and economies of scale while avoiding the corrupting forces and negative externalities of behemoths and conglomerates. same with personal wealth - encourage people to get to ~$2MM (where you can easily live comfortably without working again) but progressively discourage (not prohibit) wealth accumulation above $10MM (e.g., make wealth be put to work harder and in more provably positively-externalized ways to accumulate further).
- patcon 6y agoAw jeez, thanks for saying. This sorta of thinking clicks with me. Esp the "discourage not prohibit" framing. I think I have similar hopes, except I maybe hinge my thinking less on direct taxation or regulatory schemes ("if you get above threshold X, we take Y%") and instead lean a little but more on tactics of growing the co-operative ecosystem, which i believe will dampen the bad stuff in similar ways. I feel that co-operative companies tend to grow by collaborating instead of expanding/acquiring -- by scaling whole sector horizontally, instead of individual companies vertically -- and more co-operative companies will results in similar outcomes to what you speak of, but which cannot be easily dismantled as the tides sweep left to right, and back again :) But I feel aligned with what you're saying, and I would cheer such measures even though I work with other tactics!