Then the solution is clearly to reduce scale where possible. Many of the things that scale is being forced into don't actually increase their net benefit to th

Then the solution is clearly to reduce scale where possible. Many of the things that scale is being forced into don't actually increase their net benefit to the people with scale (usually it is the opposite when you consider the requisite slavery/coups/wars/etc. to provide the infrastructure and labour), merely the amount that can be extracted by some centralized entity.