Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout
by weberc2 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:12PM
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> If anything it's the opposite: the larger the country the larger the economies of scale.
Democracies aren't businesses. Getting some kind of consensus from a huge, diverse populace is hard. I think you end up with diseconomies of scale.
> If there are diseconomies of scale then you can organise it at the state level or municipal level
This requires the federal government to now maintain 50 distinct sets of policy, or delegate to regional bureaucrats. Both of these are diseconomies of scale.
These kinds of problems are hard to solve within a large enterprise with a hierarchical power structure; the United States is a much larger, more diverse entity with a distributed/consensus-driven power structure.
Democracies aren't businesses. Getting some kind of consensus from a huge, diverse populace is hard. I think you end up with diseconomies of scale.
> If there are diseconomies of scale then you can organise it at the state level or municipal level
This requires the federal government to now maintain 50 distinct sets of policy, or delegate to regional bureaucrats. Both of these are diseconomies of scale.
These kinds of problems are hard to solve within a large enterprise with a hierarchical power structure; the United States is a much larger, more diverse entity with a distributed/consensus-driven power structure.