No doubt part of the reason we talk more about Metabusiness than about real businesses when we're considering issues of public policy is that such discussions tend to make us think back to our high school civics and social studies classes. 

These deal mainly at the level of theoretical Metabusiness.  They tell us, for example, that businesses are virtually by definition alert and efficient, because if they weren’t, they would quickly lose out to competitors that were.

They don’t typically tell us that today, only huge organizations can afford the advertising and other elements of marketplace "presence" for consumers to consider their products "credible," and that any organization this huge is almost by definition going to be pretty inefficient.