Maybe it’s a relic of my time as a kid visiting Egghead Software and Blockbuster and the like with my dad, but I’ve always felt like the big-boxification of everything and the destruction of the small and local economy is a real crime, and has demolished local employment opportunities, local towns, local everything, leaving us only a more and more hyper-centralized society. The data supports this premise as well. Not sure where it goes from here, but if we don’t get a handle on it, nowhere good, I guess.