Re:The Coffeeshop Fallacy
by schwartzworld on Sunday March 12, 2023 @06:24PM
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> "then they deserve to be out of business!"
If you can't afford the things that a business needs, you go out of business. If you can't afford coffee, cups, electricity, water, rent or taxes, you don't get to keep your coffee shop long.
I want a gardener and house keeper, but I don't get to have them because I don't want to pay for those things. If someone can't pay three employees what their time is worth, why are they entitled to have those employees? Replace a person with a computer if you can't afford a person, or scale back in other ways. Don't punish employees for lack of business acumen, maybe unless you plan to compensate them extra when times are less lean.
If you can't afford the things that a business needs, you go out of business. If you can't afford coffee, cups, electricity, water, rent or taxes, you don't get to keep your coffee shop long.
I want a gardener and house keeper, but I don't get to have them because I don't want to pay for those things. If someone can't pay three employees what their time is worth, why are they entitled to have those employees? Replace a person with a computer if you can't afford a person, or scale back in other ways. Don't punish employees for lack of business acumen, maybe unless you plan to compensate them extra when times are less lean.