the administrative tape worm - the punch line

Update I detected a logical flaw in the argument in the initial post. Can you spot it? I'll fix it at some point.

I wrote all that and forgot the punchline: I have a theory, which is all mine, that as corporations become huge, the administrative tapeworm comes to consume so much in the way of resources, directly by existing, and indirectly by imposing unwarranted costs on the operating components of the business, that the principal of economy of scale fails.
And that's what I was getting at.