Bourgeois politics requires a hegemonic fantasy of owner-operated small proprietorship. It requires imagining the world as the Richard Scarry book. You take that away and people start asking why petty wannabe feudal lords should control tens of thousands of people's labor as assets.
Nathan Goldwag"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.