One implicit idea here is that companies are now also different kinds of things now - they are much smaller and leaner while also making a lot more money - that

One implicit idea here is that companies are now also different kinds of things now - they are much smaller and leaner while also making a lot more money - that gives them a very different character to the large, dense and slow moving corporations of a few decades ago (and maybe a lot less accountability too). Perhaps these big shifts warrant a renewed discussion about the role of new large and lean mega companies in society. Market success can't be the only metric we use to measure the societal value of a company. If it were, tech domination would be the name of the game and companies would devolve into creating software that manipulates users for more revenue in whatever way possible/necessary. On a resource constrained planet, that would be absolute madness.