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> Maybe big companies have just muscled out small businesses, so that now it doesn’t mean much to be a local businessperson > In fact, I think the kind of comm
by akira2501 4y ago
> Maybe big companies have just muscled out small businesses, so that now it doesn’t mean much to be a local businessperson
> In fact, I think the kind of communities we inhabit has simply changed.
There's no reason both of these can't be true. You might even ask to what extent did changes in one environment caused reactions in the other? Ignoring this seems to imply that the "network effect" is always to degrade local communities by default, which I don't think is true, and certainly wasn't the expectation as the network was initially being built.
- Animats 4y ago> > Maybe big companies have just muscled out small businesses, so that now it doesn’t mean much to be a local businessperson True, but that process was well underway by 1960 and mostly over by 1980. What town has a local department store any more? Or even a local non-chain grocery store?
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- akira2501 4y agoThat sounds like a very coastal perspective. Plenty of middle American towns held them for quite a long time and many still do have these things. The 1990s was the decade of insane M&A, but it was far from total.