Well, I hope this does some good, but I'm a bit skeptical. I think we need more focus on how to help freelancers, gig workers and microbusiness actually succeed as a counterpart to preventing big business from preying upon small business.

It's something I personally try to promote but I feel I have little in the way of success. I still struggle to make it through the month myself and my various projects intended to help others seem to mostly kind of languish, with one exception and I have no hard data on how much good that is doing.

I think my efforts aren't pointless or fruitless, but it never seems to be enough to actually resolve my chronic poverty and I don't get enough feedback affirming that the lives of others suck less thanks to me.

That kind of thing is maybe part of what helps drive a concentration of money and power.

I think we overregulate small business. You need to know a lot of laws and regulations to operate at all and if you are one or a few people, that's a big burden. It's less of a burden for big business to play that game because they make enough money and have enough people that it's a relatively small part of what they do and I think that regulatory burden is one of the things hampering small business, just like it tends to impede the development of affordable housing.

I don't know the answers. I just am skeptical that focusing exclusively on breaking up monopolies and putting a break on big business actually breathes life into small business. It's perhaps a necessary but insufficient precondition.