re: #4 Naso Tang

Thinking further…
The SBA stats are kinda hard to square up with the natural takeaway one would expect from the study. I mean, so what if home businesses do not hire many outsiders? They each did take a person or two off the unemployed and with a lot less impact (cost) on infrastructure. No office in the city, no commute, no staff needed. That lack of staff would be about computers and the internet making the micro biz feasible to run.

Perhaps the activity they cause as they order supplies or sell whatever they do is significant, if hard to measure precisely. How is 100 people as plumbers or exporters working from home or a micro biz not as helpful as 100 at a big corporation? It’s still 100 people adding to the economy instead of dragging it down.