Talk:Alterra Corporation/@comment-5293026-20180719022606

I enjoy the highly diversified international megacorporation concept of future fiction. However, while that was the trend of the global economy in the 1970s and 1980s that defined modern science fiction, the modern world is different. While some companies do well in economies of scale, they prefer to focus on specific fields in which they're specialized in. Exxon Mobil is a household name, but besides oil they don't make smartphones. Companies that are diversified are vertically integrated to bring their goods to market and they're more competitive than monopolies. The reason for all this is because investors who buy stocks in these companies can already have diverse portfolios so the company doesn't need to be in so many fields in order to capitalize on the exchange.