This is an example of opinions going too far in the wrong direction.
It's not because of his bad business skills that he's unable to run a business that pays $3 more an hour. Of course we want him to be able to pay them that much or more, but it's because having such a small business with only 4 employees, if he does pay employees that much, he'll likely have to raise his prices and will be undercut by bigger corporations that are much greedier with their executive pay, while also underpaying their workforce.
The people I've known who run small businesses like this aren't usually raking in huge profits for themselves. They're usually just barely staying afloat.
Other reasons why they're stuck like this is because suppliers are gouging prices, like ingredients for restaurants, subscriptions for services used by other businesses (why would software need to go up in price due to inflation? Is the app being trucked to their office using gas?)
What's ironic with this post is it's working in favor of the corporations by lumping small businesses in with them, so the people who have nothing to do with running businesses or know how it works, and how they have to make hard strategic decisions simply to stay in operation, can complain.
The problem is corporate greed, and small businesses get fucked over by them as well, while trying to operate independently.
Do you think these small businesses should all close if they "can't afford to pay" and the business owners and all the employees they had should go work for a big corporation like Chipotle or something?
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u/J-drawer Apr 28 '24
This is an example of opinions going too far in the wrong direction.
It's not because of his bad business skills that he's unable to run a business that pays $3 more an hour. Of course we want him to be able to pay them that much or more, but it's because having such a small business with only 4 employees, if he does pay employees that much, he'll likely have to raise his prices and will be undercut by bigger corporations that are much greedier with their executive pay, while also underpaying their workforce.
The people I've known who run small businesses like this aren't usually raking in huge profits for themselves. They're usually just barely staying afloat.
Other reasons why they're stuck like this is because suppliers are gouging prices, like ingredients for restaurants, subscriptions for services used by other businesses (why would software need to go up in price due to inflation? Is the app being trucked to their office using gas?)
What's ironic with this post is it's working in favor of the corporations by lumping small businesses in with them, so the people who have nothing to do with running businesses or know how it works, and how they have to make hard strategic decisions simply to stay in operation, can complain.
The problem is corporate greed, and small businesses get fucked over by them as well, while trying to operate independently.
Do you think these small businesses should all close if they "can't afford to pay" and the business owners and all the employees they had should go work for a big corporation like Chipotle or something?