Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or

[applegrove]

https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3llyl4vi7q225

Mark Cuban:

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

[Johonny]

1. What company can build a new factory

With the cost of steel, lumber, cement at inflationary prices, while their profits drop.

The great depression happened for a reason. No one is going to build more product to deliver to an out of work and cash strapped populous. The whole concept only makes sense if you once bankrupt a casino.

[applegrove]

2. The small companies will have to sell out to the private equity and

hedge funds.

[Johonny]

3. Since the stock market is a leading indicator

I assume the layoffs, bankruptcies, and foreclosures are heading our way.

May small businesses will simply go away. Those Etsy stores and Chinese importers, they are gone.

Then their is my wife's friend with 25 cargo ships. I predict hard times coming their way. A lot of businesses are middle men without factories at all.