How do you feel about small businesses? How should a Technocratic party govern them if we got into power?

In traditional Marxist-Leninist analysis, small businesses are seen as trying to become the oppressor and become similar to the mega corporations that control everything. On the other hand, many currently socialist countries have adopted a model focused on small businesses and this has helped many people be employed and not dependent on a corporate entity for work that only sees them as a number and could discard them at any time for no reason.

I've become more sympathetic to small business as I've become older because the economy is bad and there are genuinely no options, regardless of how it is traditionally seen. However the political situation would need to be very carefully managed around small businesses so the owners never drift into right-wing territory ideologically. Maybe subsidies given to small business in exchange for their vote or bailouts for small businesses instead of the mega corporations typically favored by the US government.

Either way, energy accounting would make many of these problems redundant. This only really matters for the transitionary period while a Technate establishes an economy based in thermodynamics.