How about removing the franchise monopoly provisions.
Make it like any other product. You don't need to go to the Coke store vs Pepsi store to get the respective products. You can choose from both at the same store. Car's should be no different.
Let whoever wants to open a car store open one. Let me open a shop where I sell you any brand of car under one roof. Heck let costco, walmart, target etc sell cars if they wanted to.
Its not Dealers vs Direct sales which is a problem. Its Dealers vs everyone else (including direct sales) that is the problem.

This does not really make any difference if you use any other google services like gmail.
I want my real name to show up as my gmail "from" address. But I want to use a pseudonym on the G+ profile. This pseudonym is one given to me by my friends but It does not make sense to have it on gmail or anywhere other than G+.
In a way its a win for facebook. Since they are a different service and I don't use that account for any other services I can use whatever name over there.

I guess I can always create a separate account for G+ vs Gmail. But that's too much hassle.

I have seen this in three multiple previous jobs.

The manager was awesome and everyone on the team loved him. The product the team produced became a hit and all the career managers in the organization wanted that on their list of successes. They played political games (re-org) and stole the project from under the good manager. The team withered away and all the best people left under the new leadership. The product carried on the previous momentum for a while and then joined a whole list of other mediocre products the company produced.

Suggested reading for you "The Big Short" by : http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-07223-5/
The forensic analysis of the Housing Bubble and how Wall street and Corporations contributed.

Its the giant ships in prepration for 2012. Million$$ per head to get in!

When A bit-torrent user gets Linux ISO's or Creative Commons movies or what not they are more willing to let the torrent seed because that is the price you are paying for the downloaded content.
So for any other paid content Why would the user give away their paid for bandwidth to some company which is already charging them money.
Now if we got a discount for our share ratio maybe that would be a game changer. For every 100% you upload you get 5-10% off the price of the content. I would sign up immediately.