> What's the upside of having a giant corporation owning all coworking spaces, versus having many small and independent small businesses running and operating independent coworking spaces?
Advantage to customers? Likely minimal.
Advantage to the company itself: economies of scale and, likely more importantly, lack of competition allowing them to increase prices.
The very clear trend across all sectors is that companies trend towards giant monopolistic behemoths unless some very strong regulatory force prevents it. People act like healthy, competitive, transparent markets just appear out of thin air, but they are an artificial creation of government.
Advantage to customers? Likely minimal.
Advantage to the company itself: economies of scale and, likely more importantly, lack of competition allowing them to increase prices.
The very clear trend across all sectors is that companies trend towards giant monopolistic behemoths unless some very strong regulatory force prevents it. People act like healthy, competitive, transparent markets just appear out of thin air, but they are an artificial creation of government.