Small businesses that hire employees are exploiting workers and stealing the surplus value from their labor just like giant corporations do, full stop.

I never said anything about them hiring employees. I did state the worker itself owning the business. The OP then went forward to saying the products they sell are made from some other corporation that hired employees which i don’t see is relevant.

I did not say anytjing against socialism or communism, but just saying that there are business fully owned by the worker themselves. And they do that for their living. Without society as a whole changing from capitalism, how do you expect people to live? Get a job? Under another exploitative corporation? Or build your own business in which you yourself work?

But sure, overthrow the system if you can. But till then, It’s far better to support small business owned by the workers itself