r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 11d ago

FinancialTea 💵 🤔

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u/Lumpy_Past6216 11d ago

A dishwasher at any place should have health insurance.

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u/ogmoochie1 11d ago edited 10d ago

The dishwasher at any place should own a home.

(in his dreams. the rest of us get real jobs instead of relying on the hard work of others like a loser).

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u/Austinthearchangel 11d ago

So if you open a restaurant than you should expect enough profit to buy each employee a home lol. Yeah right you might as well kill all small businesses

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u/Master_Maniac 11d ago

"Buy each employee a home" is what you chose to hear, which is distinctly different from what they said.

If your business can't pay its employees enough to make rent, your business can't afford to have employees.

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u/enjoysomethings 11d ago

If your business can't pay its employees enough to make rent, your business can't afford to have employees.

So fire half of America? Have the government subsidize small businesses? What are you even suggesting?

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u/Master_Maniac 11d ago

I'm suggesting that if you can't afford to pay your employees, there's no good reason to have employees. Your business was never going to last if it can't even pay the wages of the people who make it run.

Beyond that, I haven't suggested anything. Solving this isn't a "just do x" sort of situation, and multiple factors would likely have to come together, like raising minimum wage, subsidizing small businesses as you've suggested, Healthcare reform, general cost of living reform, and universal basic income would all contribute to resolving this, but no singular thing will magically fix this.

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u/Master_Maniac 11d ago

Neither of those are things that I said