User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Character Sheet: Malcolm River/@comment-4867780-20161014010956/@comment-4867780-20161016025357

Thanks for your efforts, I understand now ^ ^

Hmm... I think I finally put my finger on the recurring uneasiness I was feeling. What you're describing is a highly rational attitude, and humans beings are not entirely rational, emotional factors also exert a strong influence on most of our actions. Most people know that Mac Donalds is basically poisoning them but they are still flooding in anyway, most smokers know for a fact they are slowly self-destructing but keep smoking anyway, many politicians who did unacceptable things are still elected anyway, most people know that Microsoft is slowly taking over their entire cyber-lives but they still buy its products anyway (Windows 10 is the biggest surveillance/spying network is the history of mankind).

So while the plan does sound good on paper (with a number of localized flaws, these exist in any system), I'm fear its global implementation would be seriously compromised by the sheer unreliability of human nature.

On a more practical level, don't the superior profits of bigger compagnies allow them to offer better products at a lower cost, (thanks to research funds and economy of scales) and thus outclass/suffocate smaller ones into bankrupcty/absorption ?