We need to learn how to differentiate between idealized "Metabusiness" and real businesses.

Bureaucracy and inefficiency are actually about as prevalent in corporations as they are in government (and for similar reasons).

Worker peformance in a corporate bureaucracy isn't appreciably better than in a government one.

The current proclivity to discuss abstract Metabusiness instead of real businesses has its origins in our schools, media, and politics.

America's corporate entities are in many ways overwhelming our civic ones.

We're walking through a period of profound socioeconomic upheaval in an almost hypnotic trance.