(December 2, 2016 at 5:35 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Why not work for yourself? Be your own boss? Implement your business model that pays your employees well. Bless many lives including your own.
This is idiotic.
Not every person is cut out to be an entrepreneur. And try getting a business loan on an idea. That, if it ever did exist, flew the coup decades ago.
You have to have the capital, be willing to take the risk, and identify a niche that's not being filled or could be filled better in X way. Then you have to weigh the risks of losing your health insurance. See, in America, unlike every other advanced nation in the planet, we do what Jesus would do and say, "Tough shit if you don't have health insurance!"
So the very thing that conservative Christians are so against represents a real impediment to your suggestion of just striking out one's own.
I've owned two businesses over the course of 20+ years, and hopefully this time next year I'll be getting ready to start my third. But what I understand is that I simply cannot do anything but that. It's almost all I've ever known. I don't know how to work for someone else. All I'm gonna get is what they're going to give me no matter what I do. And on the other side of the coin are those who work hard, do what they're asked, and then when the workday is done, they want to go home and not worry about shit else except what they want to worry about. But now that's changed. Office memos go out over email at night, so you need to check your email when you're at home so that you're up on Whatever the Fuck some busybody wants you to be aware of when you come in the next day. And weekends are often expected too. And after god knows how many years maybe you'll get more than 5 days vacation a year. But be careful because the new guy doesn't take vacations and he's willing to do your job for less.
Good god, fuck that.
I can't believe that people put up with that shit, but the vast majority do. And for that, I find it impossible to begrudge them a better wage. You shouldn't either and that solution of "Just start your own thing" is a load of horseshit for all but a few of us.
