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When “just start your own business” is presented as a real viable alternative to a job with someone else, they are saying it’s easy. There’s nothing easy about it. And they don’t tell you very important things like the tax penalty you have to pay if you don’t file quarterly.

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Life is not naturally easy- it is only because of the labor of others that life is anywhere near as comfortable as it is now.

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We have the means to make a fair and equitable society with minimal crime and no hunger. We, as a society, choose not to. We choose the hard life for the sake of getting everything we worked for to ourselves at the risk of losing it all with one bad day. That’s not comfortable. The labour of all should benefit all so that everyone can have an easy and comfortable life.

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What do you mean by “we chaosem the hard life”? What do you think should be done to achive easy life for everyone?

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life can be easy for everyone if we all chip in a little, it’s the whole basis of society, we just can’t afford the hoarding aristocracy

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Serious question: do you think the “aristocracy” has like, vaults full of money? Like you think Jeff Bezos has billions of dollars sitting in his bank account? Or a literal vault?

Because that is definitely not how rich people actually live. As a rule, they have very little liquidity as a percent of their net worth.

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Starting a business is very easy. Much easier than searching for a job. Sustaining your business is a different matter.

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I mean, it definitely is an alternative, but it’s not easy at all

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Dude, stop. They don’t want to run a business, they want a guarantee of security, and by rights they are entitled to that. If you don’t agree, that’s your problem, but don’t come up on here thinking their complaints are a threat to your society thinking you have to change their way of thinking to quell it.

We’re abandoning you whether you like it or not :P

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Jesse wtf are you talking about?

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There is no financial security. Anyone of you, even higher paid people, could go homeless any second and there is nothing you can do about it.

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And they don’t tell you very important things like the tax penalty you have to pay if you don’t file quarterly.

Meh, you find out about that the first year and honestly in the US, it’s not that much.

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