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by ghaff 693 days ago
That feels at least directionally correct. And it even goes up from there. An organization with a few thousand people is quite different from a 20-30K one.

I'm not sure about the math and exact numbers (which probably vary depending upon the situation anyway) but it's pretty clear that things are quite different at different scale points.
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Bluestein 693 days ago
(And, should it hold, we get to cities: 100K people, 300K people, 1M people, are different cities to live in - qua size ...

... and different organizations, of course.-

Leaves me wondering - among many things - what the "largest qua payroll" organization worldwide might be.-

US Dept. of Defense, Chinese PLA, Indian railways. Walmart, Saudi Aramco come to mind.-

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ghaff 693 days ago
It's complicated by the fact that larger organizations/cities/etc. can be effectively agglomerations of smaller entities with tighter or looser coupling. But, yes, in general.

You can see some of this in your examples.

US DoD is, of course, actually part of the US government but relatively few DoD employees ever really interact with people in other US government branches. Ditto with Walmart store employees and the "mothership."

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Bluestein 693 days ago
Entirely good point.-
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marcosdumay 693 days ago
Voting for a position at the government of my ~3M people city is completely different from voting for a position at the government of my ~300M people country.

Logically, it makes sense that the situation keeps changing. But it still feels weird. How many different kinds of relationship are we capable of?

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Bluestein 693 days ago
> How many different kinds of relationship are we capable of?

Kinds? (qualitative) ...

... I think you very much upped the ante there :)

I'd posit a (cheap, easy) guess: Infinite.-

PS. Of course, taking the "cheap" way out in thinking about this of assuming each one-on-one relationship (not to mention one-to-many, and many-to-one and many-to-many, like mentioned upthread) to be a unique "kind", is an easy way out: As many types of relationships as people, because no two people are alike, and so is their relationship. Heck, considering each of the individuals (themselves) involved, might subjectively experience a different relationship, there's even a "two to each pair" pairing of relationship types to participants, to be considered ...

Now, when, IMHO it gets interesting is if we - a bit more rigoroulsy - attempt a "taxonomy" of relationship "types".-

(And, then, again, I am sure anthropology has studied and catalogued those to death ...)

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082349872349872 693 days ago
As a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
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Bluestein 693 days ago
Thou hittest the nail right on the head :)

PS. Foxconn. Of course.-

PSS. The "tripling" rule seems to hold. 1/1.5MM seems to be a "grouping", peaking at around 3MM on average. 3MM. That is large for an organization ...

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