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The overall tone of this article is really bitter and seems like it’s written by someone who has a really aggressive anti-corporate stance. I’m not familiar wit
by clay_the_ripper 7y ago
The overall tone of this article is really bitter and seems like it’s written by someone who has a really aggressive anti-corporate stance. I’m not familiar with the publication, maybe that’s their agenda.
As a business owner, I strongly disagree with the fundamental premise of the article. I, as a business owner, take on a significant amount of risk to start a business. I sell services to clients and change the clients more than I pay my workers in order to turn a profit. My workers get paid a fair hourly wage and are treated well in exchange for selling their labor. That’s the arrangement. As a worker you have two options:
1. sell your labor in exchange for a fair wage. You make money. I make a profit. As the owner of the business I get to keep the profit.
2. Start your own business. Then you get to keep the profit in exchange for a lot of work, stress and risk.
It’s a simple equation. If you don’t want to do number 2, then you’ll be doing number 1. It’s simply a matter of preference. Neither is better than the other.
- xkcd-sucks 7y agoIs it mischaracterizing anything though? The nature of life is to eat other life. The nature of corporations is to propagate atany cost. The nature of employees is to accept what's given, but the nature of humans is to take what's possible to take. There is a lot of grey between accepting everything and starting a business, e.g. anyone that's "high level". It's human to accept what's "realistic", e.g. a "fair" wage, and it's also human to take all that one can take. Presumably you started your companies because you were sick of someone else's perceived bullshit, and you probably had a bunch of structural help in order to become an employer.