> "then they deserve to be out of business!" If you can't afford the things that a business needs, you go out of business. If you can't afford coffee, cups, el

> "then they deserve to be out of business!" If you can't afford the things that a business needs, you go out of business. If you can't afford coffee, cups, electricity, water, rent or taxes, you don't get to keep your coffee shop long. I want a gardener and house keeper, but I don't get to have them because I don't want to pay for those things. If someone can't pay three employees what their time is worth, why are they entitled to have those employees? Replace a person with a computer if you can't afford a person, or scale back in other ways. Don't punish employees for lack of business acumen, maybe unless you plan to compensate them extra when times are less lean.