Ha, a genuine pro-monopoly tool, in the flesh! Amazing.
Small companies require more overhead (per size) for compliance, yes, but they also have to compete with each other and they can't fight back nearly as effectively with lawyers and lobbyists.
> If you're a small company, that means you're not good enough
...at the game of monopoly, which is not a game any of us should be particularly invested in.
This is a forum run by a VC company, you know. Turning small companies into large ones is the whole point!
Though it's not the full Thiel monopolies are good philosophy. I merely think that large companies are not all monopolies, and that they can be monopsonies too, which can be good for consumers. (And they can also pay better and treat employees better than small companies because of the reasons I said above.)
If YCombinator / VC discussions about high level corporate strategy have not convinced you that megacorps are bad for humanity, I suspect nothing will. Moats, two-sided markets, network effects, blitzscaling -- the victory conditions are very clearly based on avoiding the competitive pressure that is supposed to keep companies in check. Cheating, in other words. It's easy to understand why one would be eager to obtain such a victory, but it's less clear why one would be eager to enable this misbehavior in general. Are you a "temporarily embarrassed Zuckerberg" or merely a simp who has found that the fattest coattails make for the best riding? Either way, yuck.
> they can also pay better and treat employees better than small companies because of the reasons I said above
On the other side of every "easy dollar" is someone getting squeezed hard. Google employees and shareholders love the easy ad dollars, but everyone else pays through the nose for marketing. Apple employees and shareholders love the easy app store dollars, but independent devs and end customers get taken to the cleaners. Your ability to only see one side of this equation represents an extreme failure of imagination. We all pay a heavy price to keep things this way.
Small companies require more overhead (per size) for compliance, yes, but they also have to compete with each other and they can't fight back nearly as effectively with lawyers and lobbyists.
> If you're a small company, that means you're not good enough
...at the game of monopoly, which is not a game any of us should be particularly invested in.