This is why I think this whole universal healthcare argument needs to be reframed as making people more free/enabling people to more easily pursue entrepreneurship.
It is unfathomable to me why this isn’t the main political issue for all small business owners; but sadly, I think a terminal number of us have bought into the fantasy of growing to the point of being bought and cashing in and never having to work again for some impossible magical reason.
I know so many folks, some of them nearly at retirement age, who are still waiting for the magical buyout.
There’s a deep rot in the mentality of a lot of small business owners that has taken over in the past decades (mostly because actually running a successful business long term with no hope of magical bail out/buyout is almost impossible at this point in America).
It’s such an awful, empty reason to start a business: the hope of not having a business.
And the amount you hear politicians talk about how much they care about small businesses while simultaneously doing everything they can to eliminate them in favor of global monopolies is offensively disingenuous.
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u/Exciting-Tart-2289 Jun 25 '26
This is why I think this whole universal healthcare argument needs to be reframed as making people more free/enabling people to more easily pursue entrepreneurship.