[natecavanaugh]

Wouldn't also a better metric be the size of the corporation proportionate to the size of population? I'm thinking of the big banking families were equivalents of the modern day corporation in pooled resources and infrastructure, and social dependence. Privately held, sure, so not 100% the same, but it seems like humans end up with similar concentrated power structures, and even breaking them up, we kinda find our way back to the same type of abstractions, just a bit more sophisticated, but with the same fundamental motivations.

[Retric]

Global population has increased ~10x, but Walmart is sitting at 2.3 million employees and Macdonald’s has 1.5 million so picking ~100k as the benchmark seems reasonable.