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Why Corporations Will Die (Including Google) (bernmedical.com)
9 points by dfuhriman 5414 days ago
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First, just say no thank you to autostart videos.

Two, the constitution as it is currently interpreted, prefers the corporate entity over the dna entity.

Yes! Let's downvote as opposed to reply. Downvote is a nice anonymous hit and expresses your displeasure in a nice anonymous way! Woot!
It's called Diseconomies of scale.

At some point, growing past a certain point causes decreasing returns to scale instead of increasing/constant returns to scale. Meaning over-scaling leads to a breakdown in efficiency.

Example using Walmart: Year by year it gets more efficient, and more efficient, and more productive, until one day the company starts becoming top heavy and full of red tape at which time it becomes less efficient from all the layers of administration, from burdensome policies and processes, [insert any factor here], etc. It has gone past it's 'profit maximizing size' and has gone too far.

It is not an argument against corporations, just an argument against "bigger is always better". There will always be companies.

Right- and are we doing ourselves a diservice by having "Too Big to Fail"- and having companies grow past the optimal size? Once it is too large, each employed person's output is smaller than what it could be in a smaller company. Which is why a lot of people leave large companies to launch start-ups and why a lot of start-ups that are acquired fail when in a larger and bureaucratic system.
It is a theory that the organization internally continues to grow- and so net income per capita decreases or is increasing at a decreasing rate.

In other words: Companies grow by the engineers, handed over to accountants and then to the lawyers. And then they die.

Nice video, but what value does wrapping it in an empty blog post provide?
That's a communist view ;)