Another question one could ask: why has no one corporation taken over the entire economy/business-world when there are such stark differences in efficiency? My answer tends to be that corporations are just too bad at replicating themselves, and this failure to replicate is also a big part of why they suffer diseconomies of scale: https://www.gwern.net/Backstop This also holds true for humans: Genghis Khan or Napoleon could conquer a quarter of the world; if they could stamp out identical replicas of themselves and just make vast armies of Khan or Napoleon redshirts, each utterly and implacably devoted to the cause, no more concerned with themselves than a skin cell is concerned with itself rather than the good of the whole, they could hope to conquer the world—but they can’t, or anything even remotely close to that like cloning (even children aren’t very much like their father, and it must be a package-deal).
Another question one could ask: why has no one corporation taken over the entire economy/business-world when there are such stark differences in efficiency? My answer tends to be that corporations are just too bad at replicating themselves, and this failure to replicate is also a big part of why they suffer diseconomies of scale: https://www.gwern.net/Backstop This also holds true for humans: Genghis Khan or Napoleon could conquer a quarter of the world; if they could stamp out identical replicas of themselves and just make vast armies of Khan or Napoleon redshirts, each utterly and implacably devoted to the cause, no more concerned with themselves than a skin cell is concerned with itself rather than the good of the whole, they could hope to conquer the world—but they can’t, or anything even remotely close to that like cloning (even children aren’t very much like their father, and it must be a package-deal).
Anti-trust laws?
Without them, this could very well happen.
EMs / AIs/ VN probes/ nanomagic bacteria will not have these constraints and will therefor RULE?