(December 1, 2016 at 12:48 pm)abaris Wrote:(December 1, 2016 at 12:33 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Business owners ARE LAZY, sure there are many who like being in the trenches and getting dirty. But most are really nothing but bean counters who sit in an air condition office delegating work dreaming up ways to get investors. And I am not even against that. What I am against is when someone does do that, they stupidly think they did it all by themselves.
Business owners aren't lazy. It's only that we get less and less of this dying out species. One could argue that shareholder companies are still owned by people, but the parameters have changed entirely. Shareholders expect instant gratification, they appoint CEOs, the CEOs have to fulfill the demand of the shareholders. Not only to keep their jobs but to earn their bonusses. That's not a model where someone created a business and invests their lifeblood to make it prosper. We're living in a world where short time gains are all the rage and workers have become a cheap commodity. That's moving back to the 19th century instead of movig forward.
On the other hand, business needs consumers. The less you pay, the more jobs you ship out to low wage countries, the less consumers you get. At one time this model will blow up in their faces. Has to, since they want to sell their products in countries where they're drying out the workforce.
Yes they are and no they are not. CONTEXT.
Long hours does not mean you like sweating. It is much easier in a very literal sense, to put in more hours when you have support under you and can delegate that. It can have different stress sure, but it is not the same as combining having to work and sweat and worry about where your next meal is coming from. In that context that is much harder.
If you like sitting in an office and spending long hours delegating but don't like sweating, fine. If you like sweating in the trenches, that too is fine. But once you hire someone you are no longer doing all the work.
But yea, outside that I do agree and billionaire Nick Hanauer has said as much. You cant keep cutting jobs to more part time, expecting workers to do more for less and ship jobs overseas. You are literally cutting off your own nose to spite your face. It works great short term for the owner and share holders, but long term it simply sets up a bubble that blowup. A business will not hire one more person than they have to. Less people coming through the door less demand. Workers make the bulk of that demand, so the better paid they are the more demand it creates, the more jobs it creates.
Competition is fine, but it should be based on improving living standards, not a global race for cheap labor.
