Equality is a myth. People are different with a varying set of skills. Small businesses may thrive, because that's all that can thrive. People are not able to do as they wish, because they all have to pay for other people. The problem with socialism is that you always run out of other people's money. A country that has citizen paying their OWN way, is a country that will truly thrive, with freedoms. And if you are trying to say every company in America should have 50 or less employees, that is severely naive. The two countries are not even close in scale or production.