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In reply to the discussion: There is not a single business owner in this country who got where they are 100% on their own [View all]GreenMask
(48 posts)I think the point at times can be made, not about work, but about risk. Entrepeneurs risk their (or others) money for the purpose of profit. Workers don't necessarily do that.
Particularly for small business owners, they both often provide both the risk and the work, while at the same time paying a substantial amount of taxes and fees for the ability to do so. Most who are successful financially also tend to ignore the clock and put a LOT more than 40 hours of week into a business. CEO's of large corporations do the same - it's often not a cush job, and often has high risk and high rewards.
When someone puts a massive amount of individual effort AND risk into something, it can be rather insulting when it's denigrated.
I'm not a fan at all of corporations who "privatize the profits and socialize the risks" as it were, for a select few. But there are plenty of on-the-fence small businesspeople looking to profit just something a year who hear the President and will vote for someone else.