Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo...
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday July 16, 2021 @05:01PM
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> Your moral impetus isn't an important factor in trying to understand underlying dynamic of the situation.
No, but I read the implication of all this whining about business having small margins and not being able to find workers as a call to action to, well, intentionally make people's situation more desperate so they'll work shitty jobs for shitty pay so these business owners can make more money.
> Most small business owners are not particularly rich, and if you add up the risk premium they take on, they're probably not that far ahead at all, if at all.
How is this my problem? They started a business, they accepted the risk, it's their problem.
No, but I read the implication of all this whining about business having small margins and not being able to find workers as a call to action to, well, intentionally make people's situation more desperate so they'll work shitty jobs for shitty pay so these business owners can make more money.
> Most small business owners are not particularly rich, and if you add up the risk premium they take on, they're probably not that far ahead at all, if at all.
How is this my problem? They started a business, they accepted the risk, it's their problem.