Oh Joe should be in business, but we as consumers shouldn't frequent his business. Joe should learn that as a business person he has certain things he should do to be a part of the HUMAN RACE.
So, we need to assume small to medium business people don't realize they are part of the human race. A character flaw doesn't mean sociopaths - that's mental illness and completely different. Everyone has flaws.
And that's not a problem? Sociopaths who will do whatever it takes no matter the cost to other people?
I think that's the problem. I think that's EXACTLY the problem.
I was speaking of small to medium business as movers and shakers, and no its not a problem. It employs many people. You seem to have weird view small business owners.
The small businessman isn't really the problem. Unless said small businessman says he won't support a living wage for his workers because it "costs too much" then he needs to reevaluate how he does business and why.
Most of the problem resides in how we as a nation give wealth a pass. This isn't the small business owner. The small business owner isn't the 1% in most of the cases.
The examples you gave, say, like Rockefeller, may have started as a small business but the psychopathy necessary to undertake the kind of ruthless business practices used to turn Standard Oil into a hallmark of monopolistic excess is something we should try to show OPPROBRIUM for, rather than rewarding.
Your not making any sense then. The example I was reading about was a baker name Joe that owned a small business. I mentioned small to medium sized business, and you referred to them as sociopaths.
Normally, the first couple of years of business you generally don't have employees because you yourself are working at NO salary to get the company off the ground. Then you may graduate to a PT employee, and PT isn't suppose to support a living wage. If you have FT employees in time? Generally, you pay to keep the employees there. They also are more aware of where the business needs to go in order to increase their salary in the future. They recognize they have skin in the game.
I gave you NO examples. I was speaking of small to mediums size businesses, and never mentioned Rockefeller type of business. I said the small to medium size businesses are the movers and shakers of the country - not the Rockefeller type of business. Those are considered large business or large corporations. BIG difference.
Again, please keep up. Indeed it is endemic to corporations that the top usually makes far in excess of the average worker. CEO's now make on average 300X the amount of the average worker at their businesses.
This isn't the small businessman. The small businessman ISN'T the 1%. And doesn't really factor into the income inequality.
It seems you need to keep up! Your not reading what I wrote, but just assuming I'm some advocate for big corporations.
Joe the baker - that I read about - and my examples were small to medium size businesses. Your yacking about huge corporations that you seem to feel employ most people in the USA, and if you look at the stats from the government...they don't. Small to Medium size companies DO!
Although if people continue to NOT pay attention to what they are doing to small and medium size business your income inequality stuff will be a reality from here on out. Your barking up the wrong tree!
Most of the job creation is coming from small to medium size business, and you and many like you seem to overlook that. If you encourage MORE of that growth, and LESS of the group of companies you are having a hissie over? You don't have to worry about the CEO's that average 300X the average worker.
Are you keeping up yet?
Most of those regulations were put on to protect YOU the citizen of the US and the worker and the consumer. PLease don't tell me all the problem is in regulation.
You know the reason why jobs get shifted overseas? Its because the people over there are willing to live horrific lives you and I would NEVER accept. There are often no worker safety regulations, no environmental regulations.
This is why the CEO's of the corporations shifting jobs to cheap labor markets never move to those hellholes themselves! They stay in the US...where regulations and rules have made the US a very nice and livable place.
There are many regulations and laws that government has put in place that squeeze out the little guys in favor of the big guys. You know the ones that gave them donations for the campaign, or when something awful happens...they pass a law instead of convicting the BIG corporation in question. Please don't tell you have NEVER heard of such a thing.
Are you seriously that naive to think that regulations, laws, and requirements of business are only there to protect citizens? People on both sides of the aisle have spoke on regulation overload, silly laws, and requirements that aren't needed. Do you live under a rock and not hear about that every election?
I was reading on yahoo about how they are trying to update the handguns that the military use, and government has 300 pages of regulations those guns must adhere too in order for purchase. That just added $50 to each gun due to the pages. Why do we need 300 pages, and added cost like that JUST to update to more current handguns? We can't figure something out?
That was also why the Healthcare website was so DARN expensive! Regulations on the code that they use. Its wasteful, and only HUGE corporations with large staff can even afford to bid on those contracts. You know the ones your complaining about? You remember the sociopaths!
Mom and Pop shops that employ at livable wages could handle those contracts, and YES be more competitive than your sociopath big corporations if it wasn't for some much darn red tape that government PILES on that makes no sense.
They may even employ more people if they get the contact, and help others with the living wage. Yet, people are so narrowed minded they can't think past Mr. Fry Guy at McDonalds who they want to give $15/hr too. They don't stop to think that Mr. Baker or Mom and Pop shops could give them a better quality work life, benefits, and an employer that they work along with that actually gives a crap about their well being MORE SO than sociopath big corporations.
There is a bigger picture here you are overlooking.
Have you never heard a republican politician speak???
GOP and DEMS know they are squeezing out the little guy. They also know who lines their political pocket books. I have also heard both sides of the aisle that aren't so big and powerful that you see them in the news all the time speak about the crushing of the smaller business.
Big Business can handle people like you griping about their salaries, and they have the power to stop what you want from happening. That's just the reality of it. They should care less about your opinions, and don't forget the pay the media too with the HUGE advertising budgets. They know how the game is played.
So allow the government to continue to pass and not revised stupid regulations, laws, taxes, and fees - ya know just to keep us safe. While big corporations pay it or move overseas to avoid it. Meanwhile, small to medium size business who can't afford to do that close their doors...and allow those living wage employees to go on unemployment.
There is a bigger picture you are overlooking while you hate on BIG sociopath corporations.
They (small to medium business) could help in the fight against income inequality, but go ahead...keep ignoring that reality. Encouraging their growth would only disencourage the hate that seems so much more popular.
