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by Krisjohn 1099 days ago
Even while businesses promote government policy that looks to treat workers as rich and businesses as poor, they understand (as can be seen by lots of product pricing policies) that businesses are rich and individuals are poor. How many products have you seen with a cheap (or free) personal or family option, then expensive business or enterprise option? This is how the economy should be structured. Businesses should fund the government budgets and individuals should have lots of stuff (like public transport, or basic housing) provided free.
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Business options usually are more expensive than private/personal ones, but that's because - for various reasons - they can be charged more. Sometimes they even subsidize the personal versions (and/or personal versions are seen as marketing vectors that help in securing B2B deals). So the structure you mention already exists in the economy - the money just doesn't seem to make its way towards funding public services.