Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by halfmatthalfcat on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:43AM
(#29864195)
Nobody guarantees small businesses the right to exist. Sure nobody can plan for a pandemic but the government’s responsibility is to society at large, not the plight of small business owners.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by will4274 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:29PM
(#29865369)
> Nobody guarantees small businesses the right to exist.
This is a bit of a dead end argument. By the same token, nobody guarantees that there is food in the supermarket for people to purchase. Yet, if there wasn't, and 90% of us starved, it'd be a fairly major problem. Small businesses and their employees make of roughly half of "society at large".
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by gjsman-1000 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:52AM
(#29864286)
Okay, society at large has 47.5% of its people employed by small businesses. If you removed their right to exist, you’d have 50% unemployment.
Also, what the heck? The Supreme Court has ruled businesses have some constitutional protections repeatedly.
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by scollet on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:17PM
(#29867882)
Jobs don't magically disappear like that.
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by chrismcb on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:49PM
(#29870010)
You don't think society needs small businesses? Out big businesses for that matter, as many big businesses received bailouts.
Personally I would say a healthy society requires a good number of businesses.