I already replied to this comment but would like to highlight this:
> At best we will end up replacing many small businesses with behemoths with a virtually limitless lobbying powers.
Small business has had a hard time for a while now, suffering under corporate business models, greatly helped by the government. I always seem to come back to banks as examples, but they are a good example. These financial institutions that got bailed out... if they weren't bailed out, if the government allowed the market to correct itself and let those businesses fail (these behemoths), it would facilitate or at least allow for the rise of many small businesses to replace them.
That's just one example of how the current government/corporate business model hurts small business. How many small businesses were bailed out? Trillions spent to save the institutions that created the crisis in the first place.
Absolutely and yet we are happy to create more of them all the time. I bet cloud providers will be next such institution. Once a big chuck of Industry is dependent on them, they will be too big to fail.
> At best we will end up replacing many small businesses with behemoths with a virtually limitless lobbying powers.
Small business has had a hard time for a while now, suffering under corporate business models, greatly helped by the government. I always seem to come back to banks as examples, but they are a good example. These financial institutions that got bailed out... if they weren't bailed out, if the government allowed the market to correct itself and let those businesses fail (these behemoths), it would facilitate or at least allow for the rise of many small businesses to replace them.
That's just one example of how the current government/corporate business model hurts small business. How many small businesses were bailed out? Trillions spent to save the institutions that created the crisis in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail