I don't even like small businesses (why would I), so i know how this sounds, but leftoids are always like "the wealth disparity is crazy we need to do something", but basically equalization of the distribution of wealth is communism and therefore impossible etc. Clearly, the plan needs to be capitalist in nature. Everyone loooves small businesses, and market competition; an economy dominated by small businesses would even be preferable to what we have now, one dominated by megacorps. Ideally the govt would impose a diminishing return on the number of employees on a company by harsher punishment under law, steepening societal obligations, etc.
How can small businesses gang up on larger ones? There has to be a way
>"The dictatorship of the proletariat means a most determined and most ruthless war waged by the new class against a more powerful enemy, the bourgeoisie, whose resistance is increased tenfold by their overthrow (even if only in a single country), and whose power lies, not only in the strength of international capital, the strength and durability of their international connections, but also in the force of habit, in the strength of small-scale production. Unfortunately, small-scale production is still widespread in the world, and small-scale production engenders capitalism and the bourgeoisie continuously, daily, hourly, spontaneously, and on a mass scale. All these reasons make the dictatorship of the proletariat necessary, and victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long, stubborn and desperate life-and-death struggle which calls for tenacity, discipline, and a single and inflexible will." - Vladimir Lenin
>>2474603I think this concept could work in a socialist way if it's something like this: the government deals with distribution and broadcasts production needs, and small producers compete to sell their product to the government. It would be a way to compete against monopolies effectively, and would require some loosening of regulation to ease bureaucratic burdens on small producers, and also a much larger and more active gov arm responsible for quality control and insuring workplace sanitation/safety etc. This is like the toyota way, applied to government (without corruption gimping it).
Right now the government pays huge amounts over private entities for everything, but in reality it holds all the power and could use real competition among bidders to lower prices for themselves, even to the point of requiring disciplining labor or capping profits to meet the price they set.
This could be implemented in a transitional stage, at all levels from the municipal up.