Good point, but if you have centers of innovation and ownership, they will inevitably pull wealth out of the less successful places. This leads to inequality an

Good point, but if you have centers of innovation and ownership, they will inevitably pull wealth out of the less successful places. This leads to inequality and a disharmonious nation-state (I sound like the Chinese government, don't I?). But really, there is a cost even to the "home of the borders" when their customer bases are slowly losing the ability to buy books. Wal-Mart for example cannot survive without local economies providing people with enough to spend on their bread and butter. If we end up in a situation where most wal-mart towns are paid by welfare, then we're in a very inefficient system. It could get to be that way if everything gets centralized in commercial hubs.