You're really painting a nostalgic picture of this bun shop,the clerk stowing away all his paychecks so he too,can one day..own a bun shop.
Ok, so you're saying,it's a shit life and your kids suffer because of starting a business,well, don't do it then.
Again, if it all goes wrong and the business fails. What do you do? You get a job. Just like the majority of people have got a job. Not that bad really
It isn't nostalgia. It's reality for all of these people big and small. You are again out of your element here. How many companies have you started? How many small businesses have you grown into a corporation? Let's go even smaller. How many director or chief executive titles have you held?
The machine has many parts that make it what it is and you socialists time and time again prove you can't see them. Do you think what all these people do to make our lives easier is easy? I get it. Some janitor out there busts ass for minimum wage. That custodial labor is far, far from the entire picture. From janitors to laborers, to contractors and directors, executives, CTO and CEO the effort required is enormous and many of us, millions and tens of millions often benefit.
How do you think small business owners wind up pulling double duty? I've been in start ups. Very small companies and I've seen them grow to huge success. I've played part in their expansion, often pulling double shifts myself to earn the pay days. I made the personal decision years ago to not put money before my free time. That was a personal choice. Sure, I'm nowhere near as rich as my contemporaries but I'm not bothered by that because I did not sacrifice the way they did. If people didn't make those sacrifices we wouldn't have the products we have today. We wouldn't have so many quality of life things to call the modern world what it is. All of it requires personal sacrifice and we reward those sacrifices to make society even better.
Even those enormously wealthy executives. They don't dick around. There's a reason why CEOs get paid what they get paid and why they usually have a high burnout rate. The responsibility put on their shoulders is massive. They bear the brunt of mistakes made by hundreds of people sometimes and they do it unflinching. When product rolls out unprepared they eat the blame on a financial loss. I've been in those rooms. You have no idea the shit they deal with and it isn't just an insult it's an insult with a million dollar penalty attached to it.
I've seen all of this in my 20 years in the labor market. Seen it and been in those positions of hiring, firing, recruiting and working weekends. If someone isn't rich in America it's because they did two important things. They first did not sacrifice their free time and energy and second they did not cease spending what they had. Ultimately it isn't bad to be a poor laborer. IF you made the right choices in life for what you wanted out of life, what you valued in life then everything is just fine.
The way capitalism has evolved has left less and less room for the small business. They've all been pushed out by the bigger corporations,who don't operate on a level playing field and squeeze the small business owners out and push them back into the working class.
Communism isn't the biggest threat to the small business, capitalism is
This isn't the fault of Capitalism. This is the fault of government. When governments institute policies global and domestic that favor larger businesses and punish smaller business you get only large corporations. Take minimum wage. Minimum wage benefits large corporations and hurts small businesses. So too does blanket regulation. So too does tax policy changes that exempt large business. Like the tax break Amazon was due to get in Queens. All of that is crony Capitalism. The government is a vital component.