You don't know what a capitalist is and that's on you. Regardless, benefits and job security are abysmal at small businesses so even if you were right, the aggregate effect is the same. Productivity goes up and wages don't.
>But also, wages generally go up
Just utter nonsense. Accounting for COL, wages more often remain stagnant in the US over the past 50 years.
Are you going to provide a definition? I think it's people who own and trade capital.
> Regardless, benefits and job security are abysmal at small businesses so even if you were right
You're agreeing with me and then doing "even if you were right"? Also, this is pretty much out of Marx - capitalism was better for workers than the preceding stage. Small businesses are the preceding stage.
> Accounting for COL, wages more often remain stagnant in the US over the past 50 years.
You said wages don't go up, which means nominal wages don't go up.
If you wanted to say real wages don't go up that's a different question. And it's true because our response to the 2008 recession was bad. But not our response to the 2020 one! They're way up now! It's great.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
Note, it's difficult for them to go too far up because of "wage-price spirals", and also generally because voters hate it when prices go up.
>Also, this is pretty much out of Marx - capitalism was better for workers than the preceding stage.
Marx also showed that workers didn't choose capitalism, and why it was not an option but a force of history.
I'm gonna need a wage to continue this conversation. It's too boring and unfruitful for my interest.