> Do you know how exceedingly hard it is to grow a business

This reminds me of a local bricks and mortar small business that closed down and the wife posted a completely tone deaf:

"It is a horrible shame that our long sought out dream had to die because the local "community" was not willing to support it."

I missed the part where "community" meant we are obligated to expend our own resources for your profit.

Doubly galling was the fact that there was generally "his n hers" G Wagons parked out front of their business. Doing better than 95% of the community and still pissed that the community wasn't giving them more.

Small business is brutal, isn't it?

You're fighting small biz and accept the world big tech has created to extort all of us.

You'd yell at that local brick and mortar for sending you a half off coupon in your email because it's spam, but my guess is you're fine with perpetual smartphone upgrades and not owning the entire vertical taxation and lock-in stack.

We're allowing ourselves to become serfs of big business that would no sooner outsource or lay us off.

The puzzling moral superiority is what really gets me.

Just don't complain when your tech company lays you off or your job has been automated out of existence. You might have to learn what hustle and sales really are.