What are you talking about that no one has money to start a business from scratch? Start up costs are heavily dependent on the type of business. There are a lot of businesses which can be started with what people already have. The cost for an LLC varies by state, but averages out to $132. Most people can scrape together $132…. Or they can just start working and form the LLC once they get a little money.

Here are some examples of businesses with a very low start up cost…

• Landscaping. Knock on doors of homes with weeds that need pulling. Offer to do it for a price. Pull weeds, collect money. Use the money to buy equipment that will make life easier and make more services available. Once you get enough clients, hire people to help, congrats you’re a business owner.
• YouTube. MKBHD started with the webcam in his laptop. Now he’s being quoted in Apple keynotes and interviewing billionaires. Mr Beast was offered $1B for his channels.
• Teaching. Play an instrument? Cool, teach other people how to play it too, for money. This could be done with a bunch of things, cooking classes, various sports, etc.
• House keeper. People hate cleaning, clean people’s homes for them and charge them for it.
• Make stuff and sell it on Etsy.
• Guys in a town near me grill chicken on the side of the road and people come buy and buy it. Sell enough roadside grilled chicken and use the money to open up something more legit.
• Write a mobile app. Posting in the App Store is only $99/year. With social media there are plenty of ways to market for free. Not every app requires a giant dev team and millions in funding.
• Be a handyman, fix random shit in people’s homes.
• Make clothes. Fubu was started sewing shirts on his mom’s sewing machine and selling the shirts on the street. If you don’t want to make clothes from scratch, cool, be a tailor… fixing people’s existing clothes.

When I was young I was told a story about a college business class where the students had to start a business, but the stipulation was they couldn’t spend any money. I don’t remember which one won, but I remember the top two (based on how much money they made). One sold their presentation time to the class of 300 to local businesses looking to advertise to students. The other, and more interesting one, went to nice restaurants on busy nights. They’d get in line early before the rush, then sell their place in line to people who had long waits.

I don’t know how you can be so pro-capitalism, while not believing people can start from basically nothing and turn it into something just by bootstrapping a small business and turning it into something they can’t support a person. It doesn’t have to be the next Apple.