Well, it is, but this comic doesn’t show this well.

While business owners must exploit labour to profit, larger businesses must exploit smaller businesses. The formal term is tier 2/3 suppliers.

There is necessarily exploitation at every level. If you are to participate in capitalism, you must exploit those under you, while you are being exploited yourself. This is why capitalist countries always push capitalism as a path forward for development.

Just a big scam

Should be a bigger gap between the college graduates and the top, imo