Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by geezerjay on Thursday July 04, 2019 @01:06PM (#20356112)

The US is a federation of 50 states and in theory is highly liberal. Therefore at most your example should scale at the state level. As most states have fewer inhabitants than Norway then I don't see your point.

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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by JBlue42 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:37PM (#20356787)

People always bring out the population or area size of the US as an excuse against why we can't try to do better.

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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by citrablue on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:12PM (#20357380)

I think people bring out the population or area size in order to explain where facile comparisons fall down. Scale matters.

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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by geezerjay on Saturday July 06, 2019 @04:53AM (#20368705)

This fictional scaling problem makes as much sense as correlating the effect of some public policies on the height of the political leader or average temperature. It's a silly scapegoat that makes no sense at all.

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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by testpostpls on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:28PM (#20356723)

There’s no point for you to see. I asked a question: whether the original poster could see the political climate in Norway realistically scaling.

Maybe they’ve figured out something we in the US haven’t.

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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by geezerjay on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:10AM (#20359779)

The case for this hypothetical scaling problem is baseless and absurd. It's a silly scapegoat. That's it.

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