Embedded Discrimination Against Free Enterprise

One set of rules for private partners of the state, another set of rules for the free enterprise sector

This rare vintage mug is one of a series decorated by my mother in the 1950s. How does one assign a value to such an asset? In the 1950s Andersen’s retail price for a mug was $1.00 and the wholesale value would be $0.50

This is a story about interacting policies that I experience as societal persecution against the small business person. It is not an easy story to write and not an easy story to live but important to tell it because change cannot happen if we do not acknowledge where fallacies and injustices exist. If I don’t tell this story, who will? Furthermore, due to the recently rapidly escalating climate change, society is going to have to change its deeply embedded ways to create a new understanding if the planet is to survive as habitable for humans and other life forms. At this transition, we should examine all entrenched cultural dynamics as a change in our root assumptions must necessarily occur. The persecution of small business people is one such deeply embedded but seldom…