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This is why over time large companies tend to slide and then fail. Instead of growing and growing until they take over the world.

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When I was younger and crasser I noted that most large companies end up infested with tumors that exist to serve the tumor and not the company. Now that I'm older, I observe that truly large companies actually even develop an analog of the hypertumors that whales get where the tumors find it easier to steal from one another than from the rest of the company.

Actually working for large companies has left me with a very bleak outlook on human organizations.

Just think of the human organization that is orders of magnitude larger - the government.

Governments are not orders of magnitude larger than the largest corporations. Walmart employs 2.3 million people. The US federal government employs 2.85 million.

Don't overlook 1.3 million servicemen. Don't overlook state & local government.

Don't overlook all of wal-mart's vendors and service providers then, I guess? Those aren't one organization, but thousands.

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