[maxxxxx]

"Killing small business would be the death of capitalism and freedom."

Capitalism and capitalists would be fine. They would just operate in a non-competitive market. Which is preferred anyway once you have a dominant market position.

[anoncoward111]

Preferred by the monopoly and nobody else, is what you mean, yes?

Which is to say it is against the will of the people,

[Datenstrom]

Are you asserting that capitalists care about freedom and the will of the people?

[anoncoward111]

Crony capitalists (what I would call mercantilists) certainly do not care about the will of the people. They are tyrants who hide behind a word they are corrupting.

However I will defend to the death my right to exchange goods with you. I'm assuming you and I are just normal citizens who don't control multi-billion dollar businesses?

[ishjoh]

I'm going to use the first definition of capitalist I found on google:

"a wealthy person who uses money to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism."

As we know there is a huge spectrum of investment strategies, from VCs to Bond holders etc.

Some capitalists like VCs, absolutely value market freedom, others likely don't, but it's too large a swatch of people to generalize by saying they don't care about economic freedom.