As near as I can tell from what you wrote, you are confusing issues of access to funding with business efficiency. The mention I made to funding is self-evident: most businesses require startup money. That is a separate issue from how efficient a business is in terms of either productive capacity or success in sales. A business may be profitable or not for many, many reasons, none of which refute the main point of the article: that free enterprise and capitalism are not identical approaches to doing business.

On your two forklift drivers example: I say that they both should be paid the same wage for their same level of labor regardless of other factors. No rational argument against that exists.

None of this touches on, much less refutes, the basic economic reality that businesses profit off workers' labor. That reality, because it is a truism, is also separate from the main point of the article.