Do you believe the economy should be structured like Bedford Falls, where you are part of a family owned business, are born, live, and die attached to that biz and land hukou style? That’s the pitch. Note: most of the exponents of that pitch live in the coastal megalopolises.

Family owned businesses are good and useful but not perfect. Sometimes chains really are better, for their workers as well as their consumers. Not everything needs to be small to be good.