Loki's point re: small businesses and access to payment, production, distribution is CRUCIAL, but I must add caveat...
...or they can be *specifically denied* access, as was the case for black and immigrant businesses in the USA post Civil War.
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The latter arouses more outrage, but is also more easily mitigated--the city environment allows for many creative ways to get past obstacles
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The former is easy to overlook, since there is no malice involved--it is also much harder to mitigate, as there are fewer economic options
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