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I’m sorry, did the parent edit their comment? I don’t see how you get “taxing success” out of this.

They want to punish people and companies for getting good at their jobs to such an extent that there are no rewards for doing something well. The argument is fully analogous to economic growth being bad and by reversal poverty being good.

> a great argument for incredibly stringent anti-trust that prevents companies from getting very big at all. Successfully scaling inevitably produces extremely undesirable outcomes for anyone not invested in the company

> Scale and automated processes are a means of reducing risk for shareholders and rigging competition, and preventing them should be a priority for everyone

That's not a fair reading. You're conflating success with scale, something the parent post explains has a fractal of unwanted externalities.

The only way we have ever discovered of widely making more of anything is scaling processes and organisations that work. If you punish scale you punish success. This is true for manufacturing, agriculture and education and those feed into everything.

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