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This has been getting less and less true since the Industrial Revolution. how so? what do you think is the breakdown between say working people in the USA (exc
by bdangubic 2y ago
This has been getting less and less true since the Industrial Revolution.
how so? what do you think is the breakdown between say working people in the USA (excluding gig-jobs cause you know…) who are W2 vs. 1099 and/or business owners? 99.78% to 0.22% roughly?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> how so? Automation. Consider the number of jobs today that one can do singly today that didn't even exist then. > W2 vs. 1099 and/or business owners? 99.78% to 0.22% roughly? There are about 165 million workers in the American labour force [1]. There are 33 million small businesses [2]. Given 14% have no employees [3], we have a lower bound of 5 million business owners in America, or 3% of the labour force. Add to that America's 65 million freelancers and you have 2 out of 5 Americans not working for a boss. (Keep in mind, we're ignoring every building, plumber or design shop that has even a single employee in these figures.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_force_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_force_in_the_United_Stat... [2] https://www.uschamber.com/small-business/state-of-small-business-now https://www.uschamber.com/small-business/state-of-small-busi... [3] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/22/a-look-at-small-businesses-in-the-us/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/22/a-look-at...
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI don't follow your logic for the small businesses. Why is the lower bound 5 million opposed to 33 million owners? Are you trying to estimate only those without employees?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Are you trying to estimate only those without employees? Was using this as a proxy for business owners who probably don’t have a filing cabinet of SBA and Census small businesses.