This is where I live. I am a small business or two. I have been building my own CNC machines. I manufacture a niche product.<p>The comments on this article are mostly regurgitated economist speak, efficiency figures prominently. The fact of the matter is, efficiency means one group gets as much of the pie as possible.<p>There are lots of people and they all need to earn a living. Big business strives for efficiency and they lay people off, because they are efficient. You however are unemployed.<p>Small businesses are only going to grow in number and the amazing thing about this phase that we are in is that sophisticated tools are becoming widely available. That means that small businesses will be able to produce more and more sophisticated products, creating more jobs as a result of this terrible inefficiency.<p>The future looks like this: Commodities and niche products.