fuhreal dude, I've met some small businesses that absolute scum of the earth yet people use the phrase as if it implies some kind of worthiness. There's a special sweet spot for power hungry capitalists where they're big enough to have employees they can play god with, but not yet big enough to have an HR person/dept to tell them its probably not a good idea to hold to keep the waitresses tips to himself unless she agrees to fuck him. Most of those victims are precarious workers already without the means to hire a lawyer or even know they have other free courses of available. So they're able to do it again and again until he realizes how close he could be to spending big time in prison and stops, or he ends up spending big time in prison. These stories I feel like happen once a week and its always like "Owner of beloved quaint itallian restauarnt" and shit like that