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Originally Posted by Minte
With this logic I suppose I owe Moses a paycheck for guiding me early in life and the second grade teacher who inspired me to enjoy mathematics. In all seriousness. A company of any size is a group of people. I have never thought anything else. The difference is in the importance of each person in their respective jobs. At the end of the day,when a recession hits it's not the janitor that has to figure out how to cover a 6 figure weekly payroll. It's not the shipping clerk that goes out and signs the loans, taking all the risks. The big difference is that anyone employed here could leave tomorrow and start a new job. The owner, has everything at stake. It's a difficult concept to describe to people that haven't done it.And often,it's a major league burden to maintain.
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No sane person would suggest a business owner is anything less than the single most important part of any business. It's a false argument that doesn't exist... Nobody sane suggests business owners should get anything less than the 'lion's share' of the profits a business earns. Exotic cars, private jets, private islands... nobody minds any of that. Larry Ellison just bought the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai - good for him!
Now, when a 'business owner' at a major bank engages in fraud detrimental to the whole economy, or when BP cuts corners on safety to squeeze extra cash out of an oil well... or when a factory has people working in unsafe conditions... or when the people are being tacitly required to work more and more for less and less - that becomes a problem that needs to be solved.
So, Minte, applying your own reasoning. Who do you think is best apt to solve the problem? The janitor who can't figure out how to make payroll or the business owner who can? Unfortunately most business owners are so stuck on their own balance sheet that they fail to see what is going on beyond it... and most workers are so stuck on making their next mortgage payment that they aren't going to do anything about it.
In generations past, PATRIOTS fixed our problems. That is what we need now. People working together to come up with solutions and pushing to have them enacted, rather than quibbling over 3% income tax.
We have a large incapable segment of society relying on the more capable people around them. That is NOT new. It has always been that way. What has changed is that the more capable people used to take that as a source of pride, to be stewards of our society and statesmen who pushed the entire nation forward. These days they feel no such obligation. It's why you see so few people doing what Hershey or Carnegie did with their wealth. Gates is an exception who has done a lot, Buffet is contributing quite a bit. Hell, even Mark Cuban is at least trying to address some of the issues facing our nation.... but for every person like them there are 10 who couldn't care less what happens to the United States at this point.
The dim witted poor are nothing new. The affluent asshats who think wealth is an entitlement (usually because they did not earn it themselves, it was passed down to them) are a much bigger problem.
In the 1940s people didn't buy war bonds to get a higher yield on their money
