Well then by your definition, nobody can be ‘overcome by the little guy’ That was not my point, the big guy can of course always be overcome. It's just not a v

Well then by your definition, nobody can be ‘overcome by the little guy’ That was not my point, the big guy can of course always be overcome. It's just not a very interesting case to debate because only 0.000001% of our burger flippers will ever get that lucky. My point was that most of his praised "automation and globalization" actually works against the remaining 99.99999% of burger flippers. These trends remove the very inefficiencies from markets that previously gave breathing room to independent actors. You don't realistically buy a grill anymore, you join a franchise, on the terms of a "big guy".