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Whether it's the government or corporations, big organizations are the problem.

We need a small business revolution in this country.

Side note: An economy made up of small businesses was Adam Smith's original vision (the godfather of capitalism). He also hated the idea of a corporation. What we have today really is very far from Adam Smith capitalism.




> We need a small business revolution in this country

New York City is filled with small businesses. When walking distance puts you in range of entire towns’ populations, that becomes much easier. Emphasis, there, on both the distance and walking. Someone who drives into New York to go to a destination doesn’t pass as many small businesses as someone who takes transit.


Maybe an interesting question: How can you have a big city without a large organization to logistically make it work? Especially if it has coherent and well-run transit, and similar services, such as garbage/sewer/power/water.


> How can you have a big city without a large organization to logistically make it work?

Is there a large cohesive logistical operation even present? It seems to me the city is divided into boroughs, precincts and "special offices" all with their own individual mandates and approaches due to the complications inherent in large organizations.

> Especially if it has coherent and well-run transit

Well run? Compared to what?

> such as garbage/sewer/power/water.

The municipality does offer these services but you can arrange to have them handled privately if you want. They still have to follow the law but they're allowed to operate in the cities "territory." If the city was such a logistical juggernaut then why would these options even be necessary or utilized? If the city stopped providing these services and turned it over entirely to private business would the city stop existing?


There are plenty of small towns with small governments in the US, and most of them are much more affordable then NYC.

I am going to assume that the most people who live in NYC are there exactly because they want big city (with correspondingly big government).


In retrospect, this was a knee-jerk reaction to a topic where I have no idea what I'm talking about. Please disregard my rambling.


Are the market dynamics such that effective small companies grow, and ineffective small companies shrink? Is this bad?


Surprised that on a forum for startups, this comment is the most downvoted. Have we lost all self-awareness?


The VC-funded startup model is predicated on becoming a large business, not staying a small one.


The storyline as I remember it, was that startups can uniquely disrupt the big organizations (private or governmental) and unlock growth that was otherwise unavailable, and that's what attracted VC money in the first place. Innovator's Dilemma and all that. Seems like an eon ago.


what's that got to do with congestion pricing?


Yeah, Adam Smith, famous libertarian, that didn’t believe the government hard part to play.

People could try actually reading what he wrote for once.




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