We don’t see as many small, independent units as we once did. As a country matures, small units are consolidated. At one time, seven families controlled all the commerce in Rome.
Just as small gasoline stations are gobbled up by big chains, small factories are absorbed into larger. Tiny refineries, as Rockefeller discovered, offered a prime opportunity for C&A into fewer, larger entities.
Small political entities are often encouraged to join larger, with the claim that “money will be saved.” Despite such C&A, taxes are never reduced, but are funneled into higher salaries, pensions, and benefits.
Large law firms tend to buy out smaller firms. Medical practices consolidate, as well. So do hospitals.
C&A takes place in crime. Groups of organized criminals take over smaller territories. Smaller criminals are ruthlessly destroyed.
C&A causes great changes, and reductions, in thinking abilities. The person who would have once owned a restaurant may now be a manager, with fewer more specific duties. He becomes less well-rounded as a thinker. As a result, he becomes more easily fooled by groups of clever liars.
A nation of small, independent farmers thinks far better than the same nation being fed by huge corporate farms and processors.
We have to be especially careful when groups of liars consolidate and amalgamate to make imaginary problems seem real and scary. When a really big, profitable lie comes along, all those who profit meet to divvy up the loot. Today, the global freezing/warming/climate change lies are attracting many, many participants.
Such examples of C&A evolve into taxation schemes. Governments that want to use “carbon credits” as a new kind of money. It costs them nothing, but will have to eventually be purchased with real cash. Oil producers sense that prices that can be fixed at high rates. Electricity producers are aware that, “to stop climate change” they must cancel expansions. Coal miners can use rules to keep competitors from emerging. Billions can be transferred to bonuses and salaries of C&A participants. Others, in on the ground floor, will be able to keep factories from being built to compete with them, because “it may set back global warming”.
We, of course, will pay more for everything. But, that’s what C&A is supposed to cause. Ever fewer numbers of ever richer people increasingly dominate a growing groups of ever-poorer people.
