I agree. I would say in practical terms the most impactful subcategory here is companies and their consolidation. This is especially so because they tend to be more strict about funneling money to the top, which generally means they funnel decision-making to the top as well, and that leads to the problem mentioned about individuals having difficulty influencing what goes on in the organization.
The same phenomenon is observable with other kinds of groups, but I think less so. Various kinds of clubs and local institutions exist more robustly than small independent businesses. Even those that remain though are under threat from big companies. (A great example is how Craigslist, and later things like Facebook Marketplace, centralized and gobbled up all the money that used to go to classified advertisements in local newspapers.)
I think a key point is this:
> Large organized groups can offer substantially more economies of scale, and so can outcompete small organizations based on the economic goods they offer.
More and more I'm coming to the conclusion that economies of scale are a bad thing. As in, they have harmful effects. When it becomes cheaper and cheaper to do more and more of what you're doing, that creates a runaway feedback loop. We need to consciously work towards making it so that the stable equilibrium state is many small organizations that stay small, and growth happens largely through the creation of new organizations rather than the growth of existing ones.
The same phenomenon is observable with other kinds of groups, but I think less so. Various kinds of clubs and local institutions exist more robustly than small independent businesses. Even those that remain though are under threat from big companies. (A great example is how Craigslist, and later things like Facebook Marketplace, centralized and gobbled up all the money that used to go to classified advertisements in local newspapers.)
I think a key point is this:
> Large organized groups can offer substantially more economies of scale, and so can outcompete small organizations based on the economic goods they offer.
More and more I'm coming to the conclusion that economies of scale are a bad thing. As in, they have harmful effects. When it becomes cheaper and cheaper to do more and more of what you're doing, that creates a runaway feedback loop. We need to consciously work towards making it so that the stable equilibrium state is many small organizations that stay small, and growth happens largely through the creation of new organizations rather than the growth of existing ones.