17 Jul 2022 6:46 pm
SJConspirator » 17 Jul 2022, 6:18 pm » wrote: ↑ In the US today, small business is being strangled. Not by big government, but by multinationals. Multinational corporations absolutely steamroll small business in ways that even the old soviets could not. Consider the cumulative effects of the following advantages multinationals have
1. Lobbying firms to bribe politicians
2. Bulk volume buying
3. Regulations that hurt small businesses but give advantage to dominant monopolies (see 1)
4. Advertising (control of media)
small business cannot hope to compete, which is why buyouts and mergers devour them if they somehow even begin to turn a profit
OH, WAH, Big Business is against me, WAH, Help me Government.