Power Dynamic of Small business vs Big tech.
Currently the power imbalance between small business owners and big tech appears insurmountable. However, notice how big Big Tech really is. Look at what Claude came up with. See attachment 1 (USA) and attachment 2 (World) below. Together, Big Tech is a tiny slice of the market. Small businesses working together outweigh Big Tech by about 6.6 times. Now consider also that most business processes, when you abstract away the noise, are essentially doing about 80% the same work. It's why CRMs are such a big thing — even businesses in different industries have mostly the same needs. See attachment 3 below. So that's the picture: millions of us doing mostly the same work, each renting AI from the same seven companies, separately. We already outweigh them. The only real question left is whether we keep renting separately, or pool the effort and own the layer together.(Yes am aware of the legal impediments to doing so but thats not insurmountable) The rough numbers, at a glance Attachment 1 — USA business revenue: Small business — $13.3T (52.5%), 36.2 million firms Mid-market — $10T (39.5%), ~200,000 firms Big Tech (Mag 7) — $2T (8%), 7 firms Attachment 2 — World business revenue: Small business — ~$45T (79%), ~400 million firms (~90% of all businesses globally) Mid-market — ~$10T (17.6%) Big Tech (Mag 7) — $2T (3.5%), 7 firms Attachment 3 — Where the typical business actually spends its work: Shared across industries — ~80% (customer & sales 35%, operations & admin 28%, marketing & content 17%) Industry-specific work — ~20% Takeaway: outnumbered seven million to one, outweighed roughly 6.6× by revenue, and most of us are running the same playbook anyway. Its a case of a fat overfed Ant Driving the Elephant The case for COMMON Cause(associations) makes itself. Whatever business your in, your only in direct compeitiont with a tiny slice of %1 of all other busiensses. We forget we have about %80 common cause wIth all other small and mid size businesses globally but we ignor that and just depend on govermnet to look out for us.