This is very complex and complicated so read at your own risk.

If Walmart doesnt turn a profit it will go under faster than you can say "mcdonalds gave me diabetes"

The government also doesnt bail them out 100% of the time. There isnt enough money that exists to bail out every corporation every single time it needs help. Bailouts even often come with the expectation of paying some of the money back. Not to mention the people who work for them need the money and they spend it at the grocery store and buy products like mine. Example, Enron. Everyone said it was too big to fail. It failed, catastrophically. Literally almost overnight.

How would the stock market drive me out of business if I'm allowed to invest in it with funds from my business? What if my business grows and gets added to the exchange one day? While I agree we bailout many businesses that shouldn't ever get a bail out. Many businesses just have to die so others can be born. Corporations employ half of americans. Many hate to employ americans. That doesnt mean they can survive without turning a profit. I think youd actually be surprised just how little it can take to sink a corporation to the point of no return. Many are already closer to this point than they like to admit. If they're not making money, they're not getting paid and I have yet to meet anyone who wants to work for a corporation for free.

You watch, if Walmart doesnt turn a profit for 3 months straight you can bet your ass the vast majority would close down. It probably wont happen to walmart because it's in the food business but It costs a lot of money to run a corporation. They absolutely have to turn a profit or else they will fail. Every business exists on a bell curve. There is no such thing as a business that's too big to fail. Walmart only has a little bit of money to get buy if they arent making any money and begging the government for a bailout. Walmart wouldnt be able to live of bailout money for long either.

I'm able to keep my small business from going under WAYYYY easier than it is to keep many corporations from going under just because my operating costs are so low in comparison. I'm my only employee. What kills small businesses is forcing them to go through a bunch of useless red tape, or being forced to pay certain employees more than they're worth when all they do is sweep the floor and demand 15 bucks an hour.

My small business literally makes me almost nothing at the moment but it's at near zero risk of going under because it almost costs nothing to run compared to say, tesla or Microsoft.

I want to make it clear that I'm not arguing I just think the situation is WAY more complex and complicated than "stock market bad" the stock market is actually a good thing. It's completely voluntary to participate. I can make money with my business and invest in these corporations and make more money for my business. By giving them money through the stock market, they have money to use, if they use it and grow they give you a profit off your investment. How is that a bad thing? It literally allows anyone with a couple bucks in their pocket to bet which businesses will and wont make money.

That being said I have plenty of examples of why small business is both good and bad for corporations. For one, without small business there is no such thing as big business. Someone built the walmart. Someone made the bread they sell. All the products they sell are made by small businesses that grew into bigger businesses. I for example work in the leather industry. It's mostly entirely made up of small businesses. Individuals each running their own shop and perfecting their craft. I can guarantee you I can get you a belt, bag, wallet, whatever it is for way better of a price in relation to quality that you would get as say. Jcpenney. . You go to jcpenney and buy a wallet, you'll be buying another wallet from jcpenney in 3 years. They wear out. They are cheaply made. Some people need that because it's all they can afford. Corporations are good for this reason but if you save a couple more bucks you can buy a wallet from a guy like me for a little bit more, but it will literally last your entire lifetime and get better with age, not worse. Multiply this across all kinds of fields, across all kinds of situations and believe it or not corporations compliment small business and small business compliments corporations nicely. IF the small businesses and corporations are run correctly. I am totally aware of corporations trying to kill small business but that is not a corporation problem that's a mismanagement problem. A good boss in charge of a corporation would want to encourage small business if they knew what they were doing.

Walmart started as a small business family store one day in the past. The answer is not as simple as "corporation bad" and "stock market bad" if you know business you should be able to prosper in both simultaneously. Without small business you dont gave big business. Corporations are also more capable of doing larger tasks small businesses have a hard time doing. Like managing large supply chains and managing mass amounts of employees to accomplish larger tasks small businesses couldnt even dream of doing.

It's more about making sure the corporations behave correctly than it is assuming all corporations are bad. My main issue with corporations is that they put profits over product. That's not a corporation problem, that's a mismanagement problem. Most businesses are mismanaged. Most corporations are mismanaged. That's doesn't mean the stock market is evil.

If tesla is having a good year I'd highly reccomend throwing your extra bucks into some stock because it's going to make you more wealthy. That's not a bad thing. If you know what you're doing, corporations and small businesses are your best friends. That being said, most people do not know how to manage a small business let alone a big one. To me as someone who is in business, it's a mismanagement problem mainly. If you put profit over product then the product wont be worth buying. Greed is the problem. That's an individual problem, not a corporation or stock market problem.

I do not struggle with greed because I worship God, not money. Because of that my products are better than the average competition, and whether I make a little money or a lot, it wont sink my business because I wont be withdrawing that money for myself. I will use it to grow the business into a bigger business that is capable of doing more. This is the problem. Greed which leads to mismanagement. If you got the proper people in charge who understand these things, both corporations and small business will grow together as a team.

I'm not concerned with the stock market as much as I'm concerned with forced raising of wages I cannot afford to pay. Or stupid and unsessesary red tape. Corporations can deal with red tape. If I'm not working because im dealing with bullshit, then I'm not making money. Walmart can deal with red tape and sell product at the same time. Even walmart cannot afford permanent raises constantly or to forever be concerned about money only. They need so much money to operate. If they dont bring in money, they have no money to operate, and operations slam to a halt unless they find funding or take on debt which is basically just a bandaid on the bleeding.

The stock market is your friend if you're running a business. You can invest your profits you made, make some money and lose some money and you can put what you made back into your business. The stock market is your friend, the corporations can be your friend if they're run correctly.

There's literally corporations out there and their sole job is to help you grow your small business. They make it a business to help you with your business. Corporations arent the problem. Its greed and mismanagement among other problems simply because or economy is so vast and large. Its WAY WAY WAY more complicated than "stocks bad"

Just my two cents into the subject. I've thought about whether corporations are good and bad before. We are lucky and fortunate to have an economy where half the jobs are corporations and half the jobs are small business although I would prefer a strong small busienss economy. Corporations still employ us and they have money to spend on products that people like me make.

Mismanagement is the problem. Its bosses and leaders that dont know what they're doing but pretend they know what they're doing. Usually the mismanagement comes to bite them. For example, amazon. Amazon is very shady concerning their business practices surrounding small businesses. Nowadays they sell cheap chinese shit and I haven't shopped on amazon in years because the products are crap.

Mismanagement is the problem. I left college after going for a useless business degree and one of the first things they tell you about corporations is that they exist to turn a profit. If they arent turning profit they are less than useless. This isn't new news. Corporations that are mismanaged will usually sort themselves out of business by their own doing. We literally cannot afford to bail out businesses that's why we usually bail out businesses that are important infrastructure and not much else. Things like the airplanes and food, the farmers. Enron failed and weve been fine since then. We can only bail out the things we think will actually bounce back and give us a return on the bailout. Most businesses and corporations that are failing will not be saved by a bailout because the problem isnt the money its everything else. If everything else was working they wouldn't need the money.

Please guys. If you have extra money. Toss it into some stocks. The big businesses cannot survive without the small businesses. Someone has to fix their AC when it breaks. Small businesses fix their freezers when they go down. The small businesses and big businesses rely on each other. The corporations not falling into this situation aren't because they're most likely mismanaged or they are a business that isnt serving a useful purpose and needs to die. No bailout will stop that. Stop acting like the government bails everyone out if their labeled a struggling corporation. They dont. If microsoft commits suicide the government could give them infinite money and it still wouldnt he enough. It's way more complicated than "stocks bad"

Edit: the corporations also pay most of our tax money to the government. I think they still pay too much taxes. I think we all pay too much taxes. That being said, a corporation is capable of dealing with vastly larger amounts of money than my small business. That's not always necessarily a bad thing. There are plenty of benefits to corporations especially if they work with small businesses, which most do. I worked for a grocery store chain in high school. They relied on small businesses for A LOT of things. You kill the corporations, you kill the small business. You kill the small businesses, you kill the corporations.