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Never having to deal with a member of the public inside your property is a huge liability and hence stress reducer.
by lotsofpulp 1y ago
Never having to deal with a member of the public inside your property is a huge liability and hence stress reducer.
- spaceguillotine 1y agoso is not opening a service based business
- bawolff 1y agoSounds like that is the path this business owner took. One macdonalds deciding they dont want to be a sit-down resturant anymore doesn't prevent anyone else from opening a competing resturant.
- XorNot 1y agoSure but it's also a scaling factor. People are going to choose the tradeoff that's right for them or their insurance costs.
- exe34 1y agoCapitalism working as intended. Wealth extraction without having to give back to the community.
- bawolff 1y agoThey give back by paying taxes. Like i think the intended path here is that taxes pay for a library, a park, or a community center. Having random businesses create hang out spots out of the goodness of their heart is not the intended path. They can if it makes sense for their business, but community needs should be primarily funded through taxes not business charity.
- exe34 1y agoOnly yesterday some people on here were trying to convince me that taxes were literally like slavery for rich people!
- mathgeek 1y agoIf it’s that bad for wealthy folks, imagine the impact on everyone else.
- andrepd 1y agoWould make sense, your reasoning, if they actually paid taxes. Unfortunately everything is very broken on that front, labor pays much higher taxes than corporations, the richest don't pay taxes at all, and the shortfall is plugged by cutting public services and issuing debt on what remains.
- fn-mote 1y agoThe comment thread is about a McDonalds franchise owner. They are not going to be committing Apple-level tax evasion. They will be paying taxes like everyone else.
- anon7725 1y agoNot “like everyone else”. In comparison to an employee, a business owner has a vast array of tools available to them to limit taxes.
- carlosjobim 1y agoYou can just choose to not buy hamburgers from that McDonald's. No person needs unhealthy food.
- exe34 1y agoI haven't eaten that sort of food for over a decade.
- lIl-IIIl 1y agoBut on the other hand... Some people open cafes specifically because they dream of creating a place for the community to hang out. At least that's what they say. I often see McDonald's fill that niche for older folks.
- Yeul 1y agoHaha yeah there are people like that in the Netherlands. And then everyone comes with their laptop to work and it becomes an open office.
- ykonstant 1y agoIs that a bad thing?
- silvestrov 1y agoit is if you want the place to be financially viable.
- bombcar 1y agoI’m going to build a cafe inside a faraday cage someday. Just to see what happens. Maybe I’ll not serve alcohol and call it Zero Bars.
- dpb001 1y agoBetter yet, serve alcohol and call it Bar/No Bars.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoThe common non-tourist behaviour in a café in Vienna is to sit there talking for hours, buying a few cups of coffee total. It has been like that since before laptops were a thing. Yet the cafés remain viable.
- UltraSane 1y agoYeh having to deal with actual customers is such a pain.
- Der_Einzige 1y agoThis but unironically
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoThe platonic ideal is no customers, no employees, no management, and no government. Just AIs trading Bitcoin with each other.
- HPsquared 1y agoThe platonic ideal is doing only your preferred form of work, and getting paid universally usable currency.