current trends toward consolidation and monopolization that are happening in the wider economy
Hard disagree on that one. If anything, the past 70 years has shown corporations intentionally segmenting themselves into allied syndicates. Almost nothing is a pure monopoly anymore. A good example is General Motors. To say they are a car company anymore is a bit of a stretch. They are more akin to a financial company that orders the manufacturing of cars. What used to be "General Motors factories" are now "Factories that take manufacturing orders from General Motors". Factories now work with GM as if they were vendors, rather than an integral part of the industrial process. More like franchises than factories.
More and more, there is business-to-business economics at every level. No one company seems to make one product (start to finish) for consumers in a vertical monopoly. Everyone works by a contract with everyone else.
You're far more likely to see that reflected in education as colleges prove to be worthless. Your private schooling is going to result in something akin to certification and examination prep for industries and specific vendors. Even the largest companies on earth don't want to consolidate into education because it's too much of an investment for too low of a return. They just want to set the standards and let the schools do the work.
With education, as an industry, the only monopolies are the state.
That's a monopolization/consolidation trend, not the opposite. What that would like in education is schools owned by Bill Gates and George Soros buying their pozzed textbooks from the same place.
financial company that orders the manufacturing of cars
Financialization has been a disaster and enables centralization and lack of competition.
Even the largest companies on earth don't want to consolidate into education because it's too much of an investment for too low of a return.
It's the true-believing ideologues like Soros that are going to be most prone to doing this.
It's not a consolidation trend. It's gone from vertical monopolies to syndicates and vendors. It's become the norm for parent companies to segregate out child companies to do specific work that operate as subsidiaries. They're literally breaking up the central control of the company.
I don't disagree with your complaint on fiancialization, but it's less centralized than a vertical monopoly.
That's not consolidation, it's the same owner, but it has to be broken out for legal purposes. Then you can potentially sell that company to someone else when it becomes less profitable.
I have actually noticed exactly this since I started working in that machine shop.
We make transmissions for a completely separate car company.
We are the prime manufacturer for a certain lawnmower companies gearboxes.
We have had a lot of really random stuff being made by us (one of our big machines spent the whole week making fire hydrants).
Just this week, we had a major tractor maker coming through inspecting our facility because they were interested in us making parts for them.
Other than the constant of that lawnmower gearbox and the car transmissions, we get all kinds of companies ordering from us that have nothing to do with each other. The only unifying force is "We need these parts made out of ductile iron. You can cut ductile iron and your machines meet our specifications. Here is the order."
Yeah, and that's basically what's going to continue to happen. The economic complexity and growth is going to primarily come from B2B transactions to make better products for consumers IF AND ONLY IF the government could take their dick out of the economy's ass for like 5 minutes.
Hard disagree on that one. If anything, the past 70 years has shown corporations intentionally segmenting themselves into allied syndicates. Almost nothing is a pure monopoly anymore. A good example is General Motors. To say they are a car company anymore is a bit of a stretch. They are more akin to a financial company that orders the manufacturing of cars. What used to be "General Motors factories" are now "Factories that take manufacturing orders from General Motors". Factories now work with GM as if they were vendors, rather than an integral part of the industrial process. More like franchises than factories.
More and more, there is business-to-business economics at every level. No one company seems to make one product (start to finish) for consumers in a vertical monopoly. Everyone works by a contract with everyone else.
You're far more likely to see that reflected in education as colleges prove to be worthless. Your private schooling is going to result in something akin to certification and examination prep for industries and specific vendors. Even the largest companies on earth don't want to consolidate into education because it's too much of an investment for too low of a return. They just want to set the standards and let the schools do the work.
With education, as an industry, the only monopolies are the state.
That's a monopolization/consolidation trend, not the opposite. What that would like in education is schools owned by Bill Gates and George Soros buying their pozzed textbooks from the same place.
Financialization has been a disaster and enables centralization and lack of competition.
It's the true-believing ideologues like Soros that are going to be most prone to doing this.
It's not a consolidation trend. It's gone from vertical monopolies to syndicates and vendors. It's become the norm for parent companies to segregate out child companies to do specific work that operate as subsidiaries. They're literally breaking up the central control of the company.
I don't disagree with your complaint on fiancialization, but it's less centralized than a vertical monopoly.
Child companies aren't independent of their parents.
No they aren't. Companies having the same owner = consolidation.
That's not consolidation, it's the same owner, but it has to be broken out for legal purposes. Then you can potentially sell that company to someone else when it becomes less profitable.
I have actually noticed exactly this since I started working in that machine shop.
We make transmissions for a completely separate car company.
We are the prime manufacturer for a certain lawnmower companies gearboxes.
We have had a lot of really random stuff being made by us (one of our big machines spent the whole week making fire hydrants).
Just this week, we had a major tractor maker coming through inspecting our facility because they were interested in us making parts for them.
Other than the constant of that lawnmower gearbox and the car transmissions, we get all kinds of companies ordering from us that have nothing to do with each other. The only unifying force is "We need these parts made out of ductile iron. You can cut ductile iron and your machines meet our specifications. Here is the order."
Yeah, and that's basically what's going to continue to happen. The economic complexity and growth is going to primarily come from B2B transactions to make better products for consumers IF AND ONLY IF the government could take their dick out of the economy's ass for like 5 minutes.