The USSR had Zero small business
This loss of knowledge is just another demographic nail in the coffin of American Enterprise. So easy to keep the folks ‘down on the farm’ and in line when they merely ask to exist in lives of quiet desperation.
Close planning and building offices, and repeal zoning against new, small manufacturing starts in rural areas. Or see the more fun parts of the default process through—same result. Popcorn sounds good.
The real skills are being developed and taught, by the way, but they’re only hobbies for now.
Every writer, of every kind, that is published, or becomes a screen or stage play, is a small business.