• grte
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    1 year ago

    You wanna know something else? The majority of the world economy is already centrally planned. Not on the national level, on the corporate level. Business is dominated by a relatively few giant corporations with internal economies the size of some nations. None of them run free markets internally. Sears experimented with it, to their demise. Central planning is already the primary way that our economic lives are driven. It’s just we let unaccountable billionaires do the planning instead of an elected body.

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      1 year ago

      People’s Republic of Walmart, a very good book which goes into detail about how successful corporations use communist-styled organization and how we could have that for ourselves if we all decided to stop funneling all our hard worked dollars up billionaire noses.

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      1 year ago

      That’s objectively incorrect.

      Just in the US alone small businesses, those companies under 500 employees, account for 63% of job creation. 97% of all exporters, 32% of all export value.

      Also 43% of GPD and 46% of employment.

      And before you hit me with 46% means 54% left over, therefore bigger number wins… That 54% is all companies larger than 500 people, not just the “few giants” you think are running the world.

      The source of this information is the US Chamber of Commerce.

      https://www.uschamber.com/small-business/state-of-small-business-now