Because that's not important to this discussion. The point is that lots of small businesses are much better "consumers" because the they have much more needs t

Because that's not important to this discussion. The point is that lots of small businesses are much better "consumers" because the they have much more needs than if you only had a few big companies. The number of employees aren't important, the number of companies are. The wealth which the trickle down economy critics talk about is not the wealth that is meant when talking about trickle down effects by most people. The wealth that is meant is the wealth of the many small companies rather than the few wealthy who have most of their wealth in ex. real-estate. The wealth of the few ultra rich isn't trickling down, but the wealth of the many small companies are because it's creating other jobs in other companies. In other words. If we live in a world were only 1000 people had any wealth their ability to stimulate the economy from their own needs aren't enough compared to their wealth. But if we lived in a world where 100000000 are sharing the wealth then that alone creates much more economic activity.