You don’t seem to understand that the overwhelming majority of businesses are sole proprietorships.

You don’t seem to understand that the second most common type of business is a simple partnership.

No, you’ve misunderstood. I’m aware of how prevalent those kinds of businesses are, but the goal of this conversation isn’t to provide a full legalese explanation or complete set of policy. The purpose is to talk about and have a sense of what the fuck we should be doing. Of course there is going to need to be a different set of rules for businesses with few employees, I never said otherwise. Of course there is going to need to be exceptions, I never said otherwise.

But you’ve jumped to conclusions instead of asking and having an actual conversation about what this would look like.

Worse, I’d argue that sole partnerships, simple partnership, etc already are employee owned. So even if I was saying that the previous stated limits should be applied with no exceptions or other considerations, it largely wouldn’t have anything to do with those kinds of businesses.