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Small businesses have notoriously high rates of failure, restaurants seem like a huge risk with pretty modest possible reward. My guess is you'd be more likely
by throwawaylinux 5y ago
Small businesses have notoriously high rates of failure, restaurants seem like a huge risk with pretty modest possible reward. My guess is you'd be more likely to get rich being a pro athlete than as a restaurant owner.
Yet they get treated like evil "fat cats" by a certain section of the intelligentsia. Many of whom simultaneously believe global mega corporations who profit from wars and dictatorships, avoid paying taxes, bust unions, use slave labor, and buy politicians and influence elections are noble justice warriors. It's really strange.
- mmstgshj 5y agoDang. You need to get off the Internet. These so called "intelligentsia" just doesn't exist. That is why it is strange to you. They don't exist. They're some boogieman that was made up to scare people like you.
- rualca 5y ago> Small businesses have notoriously high rates of failure (...) Yet they get treated like evil "fat cats" (...) A small business can still be exploiting workers with abusive labour and business practices. If your business model relies on working your employees to death while paying close to nothing then, regardless it's a golden goose or a money pit, then you have no right to complain that you're being held accountable for exploiting and abusing workers. Moreso, you have absolutely no right to complain that the job market rejects your exploitation.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI didn't imply it couldn't.
- urthor 5y agoThis pretty much. Small business that doesn't make much money, doesn't pay its workers much, and requires a lot of exploitation to keep the doors open. Now the workers are leaving and those businesses are going bust. It's capitalism at work, but it hurts if you run a not so profitable pizza joint.