@aredridel Either the sole proprietor has no employees or they hire employees. If it is the latter, why didn't they set up a worker coop?

Employment itself is the problem because employment, by definition, comes with unfair terms builtin. Namely, the requirement in all employment contracts to let the employer appropriate 100% of the positive and negative results of production that is carried out by the workers as employees. Workers should always be individually or jointly self-employed