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Businesses might ask customers to pay more. They might instead pay CEOs and investors less.

Automation is coming regardless.



Most businesses are small businesses, not ones run by mega millionaire CEOs.


In terms of registrations, sure, but what about surface area? I can only think of very small pockets of places where the heavy majority of establishments are part of some megacorp

The suburbs are especially bad....


In a lot of small business it are the land lords who get the best deal by a huge margin.


but where do most people actually work?


Still small businesses.


JP Morgan Chase don't agree with you in 2014:

"48 percent of all US employees work for small businesses, down from 52 percent in the early 2000s."

https://www.jpmorganchase.com/institute/research/small-busin...

The NYSSCPA didn't agree with you in 2017 either:

"Since 2014, the latest year for which there is census data, this is no longer the case. At this point, 39.2 percent were employed at either a large or very large company, while 26.5 percent worked at mid-sized companies and 34.3 percent worked at small companies."

https://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-trusted-profes...

Atkinson & Lind ("Big is Beautiful") didn't agree with you in 2019 either, specifically taking on what they call the "myth of small business as the engine of job creation"

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/small-business-job-creati...

The Small Business Administration didn't agree with you in 2020:

"According to small business statistics from SBA, small businesses make 99.9% of US businesses and employ 47.1% of US employees."

https://smallbiztrends.com/small-business-statistics




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