> It’s been the primary organizational mode for the last 10,000 years. For most of human history, most businesses were small ma and pa shops operated by a few

> It’s been the primary organizational mode for the last 10,000 years. For most of human history, most businesses were small ma and pa shops operated by a few local people. These days large business chains are the norm. You could say that centralized big business killed the decentralized small ma and pa shops.