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Great attitude to ensure you never own a company.
by _acco 5y ago
Great attitude to ensure you never own a company.
- vangelis 5y agoI do own my own company. It's pretty easy.
- cosmojg 5y agoOwning a company is fairly trivial. Just fill out the requisite paperwork[1] and boom, you've got a company. Making it profitable is the hard part. [1] https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/ https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/
- ISL 5y agoCreating a company is easy. Staying on top of taxation/regulatory filings is more difficult.
- WarChortle 5y agoThis whole grinding is the only way to make it attitude has to stop. Do the work you get paid for. I imagine if someone started their own business, their attitude would be vastly different then working for a company on a fixed salary.
- plainnoodles 5y agoGreat attitude to make sure you understand the realities of the system and protect yourself from being exploited by it more than is already inherent in the relationship between wage labor and capital.
- scarface74 5y agoI make a lot more than most business owners as a mid level employee at BigTech without the headaches. I worked for a startup that went out of business. You know how much sleep I lost when they were struggling? When they did finally kick the bucket, I called a few people in my network, got another job and kept it moving.
- verve_rat 5y agoThe vast, vast, majority of people will never own a significant portion of a company. Outside of normal investments and retirement funds most people will not own a company in the sense we mean here.