> Walmart and Amazon are the two biggest employers in the US.

One of the two biggest employers in the US is one who treats their employees so poorly that they have to pee in bottles and continue working after a colleague has died and been left on the floor? If that’s the kind of jobs large companies “provide”, it’s not worth it. We’d much better off with several small companies that give people the flexibility to escape draconian working conditions.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/business/amazon-warehouse-empl...

https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-accused-hiding-de...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/24/de...

It can be viewed that way or it can be viewed that large companies have destroyed smaller companies by utilising slave labour and grey area practices to get the market share and then they are the only employers left for many.

And both of them rely on government welfare to keep their employees from starving so that they can pass more wealth on to shareholders. A study earlier this year (below) estimated that more than a million Walmart and Amazon employees nationwide depend on Medicaid.

https://www.ips-dc.org/report-americas-20-largest-low-wage-e...

What do small companies do?

Rhetorical question.