17 April

The mythologies of small business. I don't actually have anything against small business, what I don't like is the mythologies around it, which this article talks about and traces back in time. There was no such thing as 'small business' before there was 'Big Business'. Just as there was no 'countryside' before there were cities. The much bigger thing this is about is one of my passions - institutions. Very nasty people created the small business mythology as a way to undermine society's institutions more generally. And they mostly got away with it. https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-small-business-really-contribute-to-economic-growth