Dean of the aptly titled Dean’s World has a thought provoking essay you should read:
Furthermore, large corporations like Wal-Mart, due to the artificial advantages that they have over the everyday businessman–you know, an actual PERSON who runs a business, who has a face, who has to answer to people, who has the limitations of a human being–gets squeezed out by these giant collectivist enterprises we call corporations. Which, I remind you again, could not happen if the state had not created the entire phantasmic idea in the first place.
I’m not in 100% agreement with Dean, but I do think he might be on to something. Further thought is required on my part. What do you think? Are megacorporations an artificial construct only made possible because of government’s blessing?