We’ve had it all along: small businesses and city/county governments. What we’re missing is a willingness/ability to break up overreaching corporations and sta

We’ve had it all along: small businesses and city/county governments. What we’re missing is a willingness/ability to break up overreaching corporations and states. We used to be better about it - see 19th-century Europe, especially France - but fighting back obviously has costs. Centralized power isn’t great at supporting human life, but it’s very good at dominating human life. So large corporations and states have been bedfellows and dominated us for the last century or so by greatly elevating the cost of actually fighting back against their united power.