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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Basically you are agreeing with my point, if a small business can not add value, can not differentiate, can not compete on price, they fail. What is wrong with that? Why should they continue to be in the market? Who should subsidize their inadequacies in the market if consumers don't want their goods or services? Why?
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It's not necessarily the case that these small businesses cannot add value, differentiate, or compete on price; it's that it's far more difficult for them to do so because of the disparity in things such as labour resources and purchasing power.
Their failing isn't inherently bad in and of itself. Businesses fail all the time, and businesses who lack competitive ability should probably fail. However, when you compare small business to large business within the same market, I support government measures to give small businesses a hand when it comes to things such as tax breaks/credits, access to capital that would otherwise be denied them, and such things that help keep the market more competitive than it would otherwise. I don't expect the government to necessarily give them handouts, but I wouldn't mind if they were more open to taking less from them than they would larger enterprise...even to scale.