Put this post down under “musing”. It’s not a fully thought-out idea but, rather, the start of them. I’m not entirely sure how you reconcile this observation by Daniel Henninger from his most recent column:
Even if you are a liberal and support the goals of the Affordable Care Act, there has to be an emerging sense that maybe the law’s theorists missed a signal from life outside the castle walls. While they troweled brick after brick into a 2,000-page law, the rest of the world was reshaping itself into smaller, more nimble units whose defining metaphor is the 140-character Twitter message.
Laughably, Barack Obama tried this week to align himself with the new age in a speech calling yet again for “smarter” government. It requires whatever lies on the far side of chutzpah to say this after passing a 1930s-style law that is both incomprehensible and simply won’t work. ObamaCare is turning into pure gravity. Nothing moves.
with the manifest reality of the market dominance of a relative handful of major brands, major companies.
Perhaps as a result of globalization we’ve seen traditional large multinational companies transform themselves into virtual multinational companies in which the various functions are distributed among other, mostly similarly large companies. I certainly think there’s an argument that’s what the federal government has done—maintaining or reducing its number of actual employees while vastly increasing the number of contractors.
I’m not sure the details of this sort of organization have been worked out and I’m sure that international law isn’t up to the task of coping with them.
