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