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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Yeah that’s not how that happens. There is an incentive problem, no doubt. Executives do whatever evil shit to earn money for shareholders, while shareholders elect those bringing in the most money while not caring about how that happens.

    People driving combustion cars more than required because its convenient are not evil people and yet they ruin the climate slowly but surely. Its an incentive problem.






  • Well I can just say I started a business while being a broke student and without a penny to my name. Just find the first customer and start working. The money is shit but it fed my baby and wife and a small apartment. Kept working my ass off several years and started employing some of my fellow students. You argue you have to have money to make money, but according to you all those people earn so much more money. Nobody talks about all these years invested into getting up that point. I’m nearly forty and can now slowly start saving some money while most of my peers are paying off their first home while living in it. My employees are payed well and like working for me. I don’t think calling that exploitation would be in any way correct. I feel the hate, and I understand not everybody has marketable skills but I was basically a Linux and coding nerd without a degree with a baby and wife and no family to help. Its hard and I had the opportunity and I feel most business owner got their start like that. There are obviously people with rich parents yada yada and obviously not every business works with zero capital startup money but that’s just how it is.




  • Turns out people are willing to forgoe large parts of their earning potential for heavily reduced risk of income fluctuation.

    I would like to see a world where people shitting on employers all the time realize that they could just quit that arrangement. Its right in the contract.

    Self employment is an option you know? And since the employer is clearly not contributing anything to that arrangement, you can obviously easily do it yourself.

    Being a business owner and employing people and ensuring their families are regularly fed is fucking hard at times. Feels especially hard when somebody shits on you for wanting to feed your own kids too… Could just be employee myself you know?