# Add business and stir:
VIMEO 513096477 Unbalanced dynamics
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In this set of graphs we focus on the dynamics that occur as businesses develop disproportionate power to civil society and government.
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The base case is above has added the key function of government: to support and constrain particular civil societies and business as well as the government itself.
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Even though people invent societies, governments and businesses, all are at risk of being reduced to mere occupants, voters, tax payers, criminals, and consumers. Each reduction is a great loss in variety, variety sorely need to for civil society to solve problems unsolvable by strangers, governments or businesses.
As businesses accumulate more resources they are in a position to exert greater self-serving influence on governments.
Then governments may shift their support away from citizens and toward businesses.
Governments may reduce their constraints on businesses and increase constraints on citizens.
It seems that businesses are much, much bigger "persons"!
In this common dynamic both businesses and governments may become preditory on citizens and civil society itself.
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Unconstrained and unfairly supported, business and government power accumulates in unbalanced ways. Civil society, weaker businesses, and weaker governments are victimized by the more powerful. This leads to the powerful to become more powerful and the less powerful becoming even less powerful.
That is pretty much where we sit today.
Of course citizens and civil society can still invent and take care of themselves with what choices and resources are left to them. In fact, this is the place of innovation in Clayton Christensen's analysis. That is the only hope on the horizon today, in my opinion.
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