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If your business cannot afford employees then your business model is not competitive.
If small business, as a whole, is not competitive then we need to get the trust busting stick out again and break these retail giants down to size. I for one look forward to all of the baby Amazons.
If your small business is slightly larger (>50 employees I think?) you have to start paying for health insurance, which adds significantly to the cost of each full-time employee.
Single payer healthcare would be a huge boon to small businesses.
Single payer healthcare would be the greatest gift to corporate finances since the last big bail out. Except it's being used as an anti-competitive cudgel right now.
I’m sure the new team running the US will get right on that
Ugh.
Give it a few decades and they'll be back together under a different name. See Bell for a prime example. They're one or two mergers from being at 100% again
Oh I'm aware. Thus the Baby Bells joke.
It's not just a question of affording employees. Where I work there's only so many jobs to go around. If you hired enough extras to cover, then most of us would not have work to do on the daily. Even if they paid us to stand around, there are few people who want to do nothing at work all day. We have enough employees to cover one or two sick or vacationing people but we can't let everyone on the team take the same time off with only a month's notice. Well, not without losing customers.
Not everyone has to work every day. And pay doesn't have to be hourly. To use a silly example, it could be done like a fantasy pirate ship. The expenses get paid for and then everyone gets a share. The elected captain gets 3 shares and his officers get 2.
If that's not enough to hire enough people then refer to my previous comment. If it's not enough across the board then we have a systemic issue that needs to be addressed. (It's capitalism, it's always fucking capitalism and monopolies)