Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> Keith Hudson wrote:
> > There has never
> > been such a high proportion of self-employed and small businesses as in a
> > modern developed country. I'm optimistic.
[snip]
To what extent do the self-employed and small businesses,
pessimistically, serve as an elastic "holding tank" for
the giant corporations? Hire 'em and use 'em in good times,
but when business is slow they are their own problem?
Maybe this is too obvious to mention?
> OTOH, the ongoing merger-mania leads to large corporations getting bigger
> and bigger
[snip]
> A society of sociopaths.
Cyber-sociopaths, maybe?
+\brad mccormick
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