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armies are also made up of regular people, that doesn't mean they're incapable of doing harm on a scale beyond the individual. you're also falsely equating size
by asddubs 5y ago
armies are also made up of regular people, that doesn't mean they're incapable of doing harm on a scale beyond the individual. you're also falsely equating size and efficiency
- thegrimmest 5y agoAnd once these regular people decide in numbers that they are tired, miss their wives, and want to go home; it goes disastrously for the commanders who have planned otherwise. For a particularly famous example see Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. I'm not equating size and efficiency. I'm saying a combination of the two represents the optimal outcome for everyone. In a permissive economy, large, inefficient companies are vulnerable to competition, and tend towards failure.