[amelius]

I think we should limit companies to a maximum of N employees.

This will ensure more modularity in the market. And more competition as well, because barriers are lower.

[true_religion]

I read a sci-fi story with this premise.

Companies could only be as large as X before starting to pay prohibitively large taxes in order to stay 'for profit entities' or become companies devoted to the public good.

So you'd end up with large telecoms who were non-profits dedicated to improving the level of global interconnectivity, and lots and lots of tiny 2-10 man companies that did research or sales.

[hello_asdf]

Do you have a link to this? It sounds interesting, thanks.

[gnu8]

I like this idea. Maybe we should limit governments to a population of N citizens for the same reasons.

[cobbzilla]

interesting idea, impossible to enforce. we'd end up with even more contractors, and mega-conglomerates of hundreds of companies with ~N employees each.