>Those businesses employ the the vast majority of workers. For my own edification, I looked this up. There are about 125 million full-time employees in the U.

>Those businesses employ the the vast majority of workers. For my own edification, I looked this up. There are about 125 million full-time employees in the U.S. [0] Of which, there are: * 35 million Fortune 1000 employees [1] * 22 million government employees [2] So, government and the Fortune 1000 account for about 45% of all employment. I also found a census reckoning [3] (that seems to exclude government altogether) that puts large- and medium-sized enterprises at 65% of all employment (and growing). [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthly-number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthl... [1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-are-there-in-the-Fortune-1-000-in-the-US https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-are-there-in-the-Fo... [2] http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/government-workers-now-outnumber-manufacturing-workers-9932000 http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/govern... [3] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/econ/g12-susb.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio... Edited to fix sources.