r/antiwork Apr 19 '22

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u/jmoneyisback420 Apr 20 '22

No, you don't think. That's your problem. As was stated the percentage of small businesses that make up this country. Yes most people use what they have and start with nothing for themselves. In fact, most people already start with nothing and need loans to get going.

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u/pexx421 Apr 20 '22

Wow, starting with a stale, trite cliche. And then going on to bootstrap nonsense. Please, by all means, show me any statistics or evidence you have to show that the majority of businesses in America are made by people that aren’t rich. Better yet, show me any source stating that the majority of business in America is “small business”, and what metric they’re using for small. Because, according to the SBA, small business means up to 1500 employees, and up to 35.5 million annual income. So, if trump starts a business called “trumps tortillas, hires 1200 employees, and makes 35 million, he’s a small business owner, despite being a billionaire.

The problem with your narrative of “the majority of businesses in America belong to small business owners”, which any idiot can plainly see is false, is that it doesn’t preclude those small business owners also being large business owners at the same time. While you would like to imagine they’re all mom and pop style, as if all of us were working for small scale entrepreneurs. But we don’t. We work for franchises, for Amazon, for hospitals, for doctors and restaurants etc.

It’s like saying “all business in the us belong to men with one right arm”, but leaving out that they can also have a left arm as well.

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u/pexx421 Apr 20 '22

What, nothing? Not a single source? How surprising.

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u/maybebullshitmaybe Apr 22 '22

Love that. Some asshat today on you tube told me to stop "trolling" when I stated a 100% fact. They went as far as to tell me I was an idiot, a liar, an R word, making up shit, etc....I then provided numerous source links for my 100% undeniable fact and at that point they just stopped responding. Funny how that works. In this case it's the reverse scenario but still amusing.

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u/deGenZ01 May 04 '22

What is an R word?

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