I disagree. Individual and small businesses are what will bring back the middle class. Less regulations helps. Simpler lower takes for small business would help. The discrepancy between the income of the top 5% of the population and everyone else is appalling. Why should, for example, the Waltons, get any tax breaks that don't have to directly go into workers wages and nourishing small US companies? They got rich off the backs of employees who have wages that are so low that they're eligible for government benefits in many cases.
The whole point of buying (selling) small businesses is so the owner can start another. That’s the biggest factor in creating new jobs: creating new companies after selling the old ones.
Horse hockey. They got rich by initially by putting their own money at risk to start a company. Then they worked their balls off to sustain and grow the business, and make a profit. They then reinvested their profits, putting their money at risk again, to grow the business. Along the way, they created hundreds of thousands of jobs that, without their efforts, would not otherwise exist. Many long-term employees became millionaires themselves.
The narrative of the rich getting rich on the backs of the poor is pure BS. But if it makes you feel better, think what you like and be a proud socialist.