Once the merger is completed, there are few incentives to stick around. The smaller companies show a better growth rate. Toward empowerment of the individual, with luck. Toward global economic meltdown, as a worst case scenario. But the service economy is something entirely different.
Democratization reduces the value of shared resources.
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