Yes.

And yet...

You can walk down the street and buy a taco from a food truck. And the guy handing you the taco is probably also the owner of the truck.

And innumerable people have full-time businesses and health care ... and they walk dogs for a living.

And most people have a "tax person" they go to, who - during the day - probably works in Accounts Receivable for a local company, but during tax season moonlights as a tax preparer.

And some woman got a loan and opened up a coffee shop, and employs six people, two-shifts a day, 7-days a week.

So yeah. If you are a big, rapacious, corner-cutting, tax-cut-asking, company that imports 90% of their products from slave-labor markets, and fails to pay your employees a living wage, and sucks at the corporate teat of tax breaks and federal benefits... your business is coming apart at the seams.

But people will still need products and services once you pull your golden parachute and bail out, and that's going to push people back to local businesses. Ones you can trust. Ones that are just good people, trying to provide a product and service they are proud of.

And I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

If Amazon replaces ALL of the big box stores, and their hyper-efficient delivery system makes sure my staple needs are taken care of, then I have more time and inclination (and money) to patronize my local providers for those things that make life good.

Simplistic view? Sure. But... a reckoning has been coming for a long time. WalWart and all the others can only suck the government teat for so long, before it runs dry, and their unsustainable businesses come crashing down.