Small businesses represent independence. You have more options in a small business to shop and a variety of other small businesses to shop with. You are not dependent on one store and have a wider choice of products than a big box store.

Big Businesses represent dominance and control. You have less options to shop and less choices in the store. You are dependent on this one store and have only the choices the one store decides for you. Limiting choice is essentially just increasing control.

This is why the Government wants to crush small businesses with ridiculous mandates. The mandates that the big box stores don’t have to play by. It’s a strategy by design, they know that small businesses are more likely not to follow the status quo and take orders and mandates from the government because it’s bad for small businesses and has an immediate financial impact on them. In a free society, small businesses understand that the Government is meant to work for them, not be controlled by them.

The Government is not your friend, they want to control everything you do. The consolidation of choice and dependance on a few large stores/retailers means it is easy to shut things down or shut supply off if they want to in furthering their control and your dependence on them.

Just take a look at the circus of politicians on both sides the aisle at the moment. They’re all still getting paychecks to decide on what new restrictions should be put in place, what new meaningless items to stuff a stimulus package with, and how they to continue to hammer Trump and his supporters even after he’s out of office with the orange man bad tactics.

When you are dependent on the Government, you are enslaved by them. You have a choice. Make that choice wisely as every choice in every moment dictates our future.