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Hence the colossal boon of scale. Over a certain size a single merchant cannot achieve more without leverage, in the form of her own servants, engaged to do her bidding. When scale gets so great we see that model replicate, as if fractally: the single corporation subdivides itself, and engages other companies to undertake its own fundamental operation — other companies which themselves have engaged agents, and even outsourced its own functions to other corporations. | Hence the colossal boon of scale. Over a certain size a single merchant cannot achieve more without leverage, in the form of her own servants, engaged to do her bidding. When scale gets so great we see that model replicate, as if fractally: the single corporation subdivides itself, and engages other companies to undertake its own fundamental operation — other companies which themselves have engaged agents, and even outsourced its own functions to other corporations. | ||
We draw from this also a refinement of Parkinson’s law: | We draw from this also a refinement of [[Parkinson’s law]]: let us call it {{buchstein}}’s law, or the [[eighteenth law of worker entropy]]: | ||
{{quote|{{eighteenth law of worker entropy}}}} | |||