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by bluGill 2636 days ago
500 is just getting into medium size. I'd say you need to approach 10,000 before you can say large. You need tens of millions before I could call you huge (Ie a country, depending on how you define organization might need to be a dictatorship to count for you)

I agree with your point, but I think your scale factors for size are off by orders of magnitude.
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yossi_peti 2636 days ago
> You need tens of millions before I could call you huge

That seems like an absurd standard to me. The three largest employers in the world (by number of employees) are 1. The U.S. Department of Defense, 2. The People's Liberation Army (China), and 3. Walmart. Each of these three largest employers in the world has between 2 and 3 million employees, which is much less than your standard of "tens of millions".

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bluGill 2636 days ago
China is a controlled economy, so you can argue that a large part of their people are employees of the state.
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