Agreed, but let us talk about practicality in terms of owning a business at all.

The sheer buy-in, heavy loans, credit, taxes/bills will easily force the most liberal-minded business-owner into a selfless ghoul dependent on making their dream achieve on the backs of others no matter what. Either it be rental property, utilities that drive the very life-force of what is around us or even a fucking dog-grooming shop; they will exploit you and the economic conditions around them will practically force it.

That’s the most disgusting part about pathetic small business “owners”. They suffer this, that being the very constant leverage of their own livelihood against them and the sheer sunken cost of trying to make their dream work, they grow up in poverty and struggle their entire lives even and yet they will turn their back on that suffering when their condition grows convenient. It is not ignorance. It is not a casual blind-eye turned. It is a purposeful nescience of empathy and humanity itself that they will indulge in when it comes time to do payroll.

They serve a good purpose as pavement paint.

I just have trouble seeing the approach of Engels working today.