This is my rub with having been a small business owner and having family thats a small business owner.
1.) Owning a small business is stressful. Like a monkey (a fun monkey that sometimes does tricks or smokes cigarettes) on your back all the time
It takes a special breed of person to like it or excel
2.) Small business is an incredible wealth engine that provides lots of jobs which in turn helps people afford their life, send their kids to school, etc. a lot fail though.
Adding those two things together while politicians constantly felate you on the stump, however, has created a sort of mystique or reverence for small business owners that is only rivaled by firefighters it seems.
It’s hard work but it ain’t gods work. It is crazy difficult to get health insurance for you or your employees, but you’re not saving lives.
Successful small business owners are so high on their own supply they can’t see how protecting their personal wealth can actually be hurting their business or the people they employ IMO.
Most if not all owners I’ve met couldn’t stand or thrive in a corporate environment anyway. So to go around as a Christ like figure is amusing to me.