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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]patrice
(47,992 posts)What I hear from Democrats and PO is how to make hard work, including that done by business owners, successful.
It's called Demand Side Economics: the hard work of business owners needs to fall on the fertile ground of demand for the products and services of that hard work, i.e. markets with enough people with enough money to bring the business owner's work to success.
I think this would also include things such as how at least some business owner's hard work needs a "fertile ground" that includes the appropriate kinds of enterprises in their supply chain for the business. Another type of Demand there, in this case the business owner's own demand for certain kinds of business supplies that help him/her create the product/service. What if the supply chain isn't there?
And then there's another level to demand: Business owners have a need, a demand, for enough of the right kinds of employees. What if those kinds of employees aren't available and there's only employees with not enough of the right skills and no aptitude for developing skills?
This perspective VALUES the hard work of business owners by not leaving their success to chance and the bad luck that there's not enough of a supply chain, or not enough competition in that supply chain to do the business owner the benefit of better prices. Or leaving it to chance whether the business owner will have to work harder and longer to make up for inappropriate or incomplete staff skill sets.