Michael: Anyone who shares Warren Buffett’s delusions about the benefits of size should read Leopold Kohr’s The Breakdown of Nations. In this, Kohr develops the “size theory of social misery,” arguing that “whenever something is wrong, something is too big.” Apart from the tendency for increased size to discourage resiliency and adaptability, and to foster systemic ossification, it violates the allometric principle central to all living forms. Fifty-feet tall women may make for entertaining sci-fi movies, but are incompatible with life, a truth that can be observed in the life of Robert Wadlow who reached a height of 8’11” when … Continue reading Re: Buffett on Size