widespread ownership of the means of production comes from small businesses.
However, statism/corporatism squeezes out the entreprenuer’s motivation. The main incentive is wealth or earned success (being relative)
This downturn has exposed our societies’ laziness and downright lack of intelligence.
I would not blame the people all together. The government has made it so only big corporations can afford to pay for all the regulations, and laws that have been establish to, as it appears to me, to stop individual entrepreneurship, individual inventiveness. As an example, I could build for myself a shopping center at 1/3 the cost of what it costs in the present system of government inspections. The shopping center would be identical to the one approved by the same inspectors. It's my shopping center. The rents would be much cheaper for my tenants. When I go to sell it, the buyer knows that i built it without inspections, he can pay less if he wants or pay more if he sees that i built it better than code. I could build a Shopping center at 1/3 of what it costs me. BUT THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT LET ME. I'm stifled. All I can do is move to Tennessee, where they don't have this system.