I am still reading Ayn Rand’s “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal” and I came across the following quote.  The context is a discussion of anti-trust laws but it applies equally to thinking about government and business.

In the absence of any rational criteria of judgement,  people attempted to judge the immensely complex issues of a free market by so superficial a standard as “bigness.”  You hear it to this day: “big business,” “big government, ” or “big labor” are denounced as threats to society with no concern for the nature,  source, or function of the “bigness,” as if size as such were evil.  This type of reasoning would mean that “big” genius, like Edison, and “big” gangster, like Stalin, were equal malefactors: one flooded the world with immeasurable values and the other with incalculable slaughter, but both did it on a very big scale.