Wash, rinse, repeat

  1. Big corporations misbehave.
  2. Government responds with Byzantine regulations.
  3. Small businesses can’t afford to comply and are driven out of business.
  4. Big corporations get even bigger – obscenely big, too big to fail, even.
  5. Obscenely big corporations misbehave.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Is this a great country or what?

Bust them up, fer cryin’ out loud!

(My muse for this was Jeffrey Polet. How I free-associated off his benign remarks is my own doing.)

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“The remarks made in this essay do not represent scholarly research. They are intended as topical stimulations for conversation among intelligent and informed people.” (Gerhart Niemeyer)

Some succinct standing advice on recurring themes.