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I agree. Plus I like to see small local businesses succeed. It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling that I don't get shopping at big businesses.No, the bigger the business the less likely it is to be concerned about an individual's welfare, or even the community's welfare. Commerce, like government, works best when it's kept small and personal. When we have to look each other in the eye as we trade our goods and services, we're far more likely to understand that the purpose of commerce is to benefit everyone involved. And is NOT to get as much profit out of the deal for ourselves, as possible.
Why or Why not?
No, the bigger the business the less likely it is to be concerned about an individual's welfare, or even the community's welfare. Commerce, like government, works best when it's kept small and personal. When we have to look each other in the eye as we trade our goods and services, we're far more likely to understand that the purpose of commerce is to benefit everyone involved. And is NOT to get as much profit out of the deal for ourselves, as possible.
Plus, businesses tend to experience economies of scale, so big businesses do everything more efficiently. So, it's better for everybody.Yes - because I believe in the supply and demand type capitalism we enjoy in the U.S. If there is a demand for big business then it should be supplied.
And the fact that when businesses are more efficient, they can sell their supplies for cheaper and still make the same profit (and therefore still be able to pay their employees the same wages), so consumers can spend more of their money on other things, making the cost of living go down and leaving people with more "leisure" money, if you will.Not to mention the number of jobs provided by big busines.
Economies of scale don't last forever. It's NOT infinite growth, because ecnomic science knows that at some point economies of scale will become diseconomies of scale, and the businesses will STOP expanding. It would be unstable if they continued expanding, and they would lose money, which is why they don't.Big business is also based on economic science, which is inherently flawed. Infinite growth within a finite system is suicide. It is in no way effecient. Rather, it is unstable.
Inventions are as likely to occur on a small scale as on a big scale. It was the assembly line method of production that made these inventions cheap enough for most people to afford. "Big business" was not a necessary requirement. And in fact, it was when "big business" began using the assembly line method that we got the robber barons of the early 20th century, and blood ran in the streets of America. It was "big business" that forced workers to unite into labor unions to fight them for decent working conditions and a living wage. The big businesses themselves, and the robber barons that owned them, would have been perfectly happy working children to their deaths for peanuts, for the sake of maximizing profits. And they have not changed even to this day. They would still work children to their deaths for profit if they could get away with it. It's why so many of them are closing their shops in America and moving to third-world countries, where they an get away with it.of course. without it we would all be living like it was 1800.
cars, televisions, telephones, DVDs, computers, satellites, software, books, pens, paper, and almost ever other thing on this planet is made available and affordable by big business.
the industrial revolution is the reason why we are not 85% farmers. Thank big business for that.
Big business allows all the hippies to sit around and complain about big business rather than pick potatoes...
The difference between commerce and exploitation is that with commerce, the deals benefit everyone concerned. While with exploitation, one side benefits at the expense of the other. When businesses are run purely for the sake of profit, exploitation will be "just good business". And that's exactly how businesses in America think and behave. And the bigger they are, the more profit driven they are, and the more exploitive they become.yeah, and that is what a business is supposed to be....... mother.
Economies of scale don't last forever. It's NOT infinite growth, because ecnomic science knows that at some point economies of scale will become diseconomies of scale, and the businesses will STOP expanding. It would be unstable if they continued expanding, and they would lose money, which is why they don't.