except, that is not always true. More like, investor-backed and aggressive user companies will do that. Adults with a some money can start a business.. but, you know Walmart etc.. its not black and white. Its overly-simplified to simply blame "business" though what you say is not uncommon. What are the alternatives?
The alternative is niche lifestyle businesses. Restaurants, cottage industries, independent contractors, etc.
There are lots of tiny niches all over the economy where these small businesses can thrive and pay their workers fair wages. They are harder to find in high cost-of-living areas, however.
>> No surprise there. Companies are built with the purpose of making money, not caring about peoples' welfare.
> except, that is not always true. More like, investor-backed and aggressive user companies will do that.... Its overly-simplified to simply blame "business" though what you say is not uncommon.
It's not overly-simplified. In its purest form, business is for making money, not caring about people's welfare. The examples where that's not always true are essentially stories about something else contaminating the pure business ethic, and such contaminates are hard to maintain the larger a business gets and the longer it operates.
no, I am explicitly disagreeing with that.. I think there are many forms of "business" that far outdate modern economics. I believe that some places and some markets did have an "enlightenment" and provided for plural forms of business explicitly. Meanwhile, some individuals, groups or families took and kept power to run their own business. Now looking at 30x more people and economies on the scale of nations, it is easy to forget the "micro economics" that we all must live, and that can power "business." Lastly, I claim that speaking in nation-wide generalities can only be wrong because it only takes one counter-example to spoil a generalized statement.
The alternative is to stop being blindly loyal and to change jobs if you feel you will be treated better somewhere else. I've never been convinced that loyalty is such a moral virtue in the first place. It just seems like one of those virtues that disproportionally benefits rulers and exploiters.
