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Oh and just to clarify-

I absolutely believe that we need big companies and that small companies are not always better than big. Big company scale and maturity is often necessary to efficiently deliver products and services. Even where both are possible, the inherent loss of agility or individual responsiveness that comes with this scale can often be an a socially optimal tradeoff (for some things, in some areas, etc).

Likewise, I believe there is such a thing as too much "entrepreneurship" or simply mal-investment (e.g., too many me-too companies or people mindlessly an area that's doomed to fail).

But this really don't change the fact that large organizational scale is strongly associated with a certain type of dysfunction to a typically much greater degree than smaller organizations that make startups an utterly crucial part of our economic development or that certain individuals can simply be much more socially productive in smaller more entrepreneurial organizations (I think you kind of acknowledge it when you allude to knowing how to traverse the system-- this effort is definitely non-zero and takes real time and attention away from dealing with issues that can often be dealt with much more efficiently in other organizations)