Too large
We Schumacherians and bioregionalists have been yapping about the importance of the issue of scale forever.
Now it’s occurring to the world at large (too large!).
Think of “too big to fail.” The largest corporations are so large, i.e., their fate affects so many people, that the rules of capitalism must be overridden. A bankruptcy of a corporation like General Motors (like in 2008) is disallowable. Bailout required.
The article linked below says that Facebook is too large to be allowed, willy-nilly, to make any old corporate-self-interested decision they feel like:
With its 3.45 billion monthly global users across its products, Facebook is far and away one of the biggest speech platforms the world has ever seen. What content the company suppresses or amplifies changes the flow of information, opinion formation and the nature of independent thought around the world for billions of people at a time.
You already know what we Schumacherians and bioregionalists say: That’s an absurd scale. Whether the ownership is private or public, that kind of concentration of influence, that kind of concentration of power, that kind of domain of experience . . . is insane.
