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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Based on his responses I don’t think he’s getting it
    He clearly does not get it. Maybe if we spell it out for him on paper and pin it to a sheeps ass, he can read it upon his next visit there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post
    It's funny to me that the best solution is to subsidize low income people through the government instead of trying to drive the prices up, yet the liberals will criticize the companies when that happens.
    Exactly. They do not want to pay directly for their neighbors etc to live better. Quickest way to get people to shut up is to actually have them pay for something out of pocket.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Not every transaction is "consumerism" by default.
    I never made such a claim.
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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Says who?
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adolf_Twitler View Post
    Hillarious!

    Go ask the people in Santa Fe, New Mexico! Santa Fe outsmarted themselves a few years back when the mayor and city council put a moratorium on affordable housing and tore down all the afordable properties and replaced them with high end multi-million dollar McMansions.
    You have a link to that? I know Santa Fe quite well and never heard about that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    It is a risky business but a lot of it goes back to undercapitalization from the launch. It can take years to build a good return customer base, so you really have to be able to cover it all out of pocket for a significant period of time to make it work. I used to work somewhere that had a mom and pop at each end of the street. Each one lasted about 3 months. I couldn't tell you how many people thought they could make it and failed over and over and over again. We stopped learning the new names of the places. We just called them Top of The Hill and Bottom of the Hill. "Oh, Top of the Hill is open again" "They sell hotdog?" "Nope" "Well maybe in 3 months the new tenants will."
    I know that feeling. I worked for several “undercapitalized” companies in the recycling business. Had some great products but didn’t have the capital to grow. It was a roller coaster ride.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    It is a risky business but a lot of it goes back to undercapitalization from the launch. It can take years to build a good return customer base, so you really have to be able to cover it all out of pocket for a significant period of time to make it work. I used to work somewhere that had a mom and pop at each end of the street. Each one lasted about 3 months. I couldn't tell you how many people thought they could make it and failed over and over and over again. We stopped learning the new names of the places. We just called them Top of The Hill and Bottom of the Hill. "Oh, Top of the Hill is open again" "They sell hotdog?" "Nope" "Well maybe in 3 months the new tenants will."
    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I know that feeling. I worked for several “undercapitalized” companies in the recycling business. Had some great products but didn’t have the capital to grow. It was a roller coaster ride.
    Starting any business is a bitch. My first time around was an economic and emotional disaster that lasted 6.5 yrs. I'd never wish what I went thru on anybody.
    A veterinarian opened next door to me and lasted about 8 months then went bankrupt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    Starting any business is a bitch. My first time around was an economic and emotional disaster that lasted 6.5 yrs. I'd never wish what I went thru on anybody.
    A veterinarian opened next door to me and lasted about 8 months then went bankrupt.
    LOL my "business" still isn't really a business in the sense that I could turn it into some equity. It's just me doing work for people who either hear about me or see my van. LOL I'm both ashamed and proud. I'm ashamed because I'm sure I could expand and hire help and grow a real business, but I'm also proud that I don't need to do that. I'm able to operate a high end operation without a single ounce of help. I might be stifling my overall revenues, but not my net profits. My secret?: My time is worth nothing to me unless I'm making money so I do not get upset at having to do things and not get paid such as bookwork, taxes, estimates, or anything work related that doesn't pay like getting materials and fixing machines. Now all of those things become expenses once I move to the next level and it's more than I can cover alone. I'm almost there with demand despite zero advetising, but my strategy is to raise the prices and remain less busy. It's working. This mutherfucker gettin paid and putting in 30 hour weeks LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    Starting any business is a bitch. My first time around was an economic and emotional disaster that lasted 6.5 yrs. I'd never wish what I went thru on anybody.
    A veterinarian opened next door to me and lasted about 8 months then went bankrupt.
    I was pretty lucky with my first business. Still going and revenue growing every year. It takes a little getting used to paying yourself last instead of first though. I was lucky in that someone else had the same kind of business in the same location for 20 years before me. When they died in an accident, I bought the building but not the business, and started up fresh. I basically got the customers for free without taking on any of the liabilities/obligations of the prior business

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    You have a link to that? I know Santa Fe quite well and never heard about that.
    There are many others, but I stumbled onto a Newspaper Report that talks about the problems with the revitalization of Santa Fe.

    It takes all of two minutes to read in it's entirety!

    https://www.abqjournal.com/657062/headline-407.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    You win the internet today.
    Wow, well let me start by saying minimum wage jobs were not supposed to be career jobs rather jobs for high school kids or college kids. Let me further state that if you want to live in a high rent area get a high rent job. You want better pay, learn a skill, get an apprenticeship. No one is stopping them from doing that, sure it will take hard work, but as someone who started with his company 30 yrs ago yesterday, it can be done. Problem is everybody expects great pay to start, and the company car, work hard earn your way up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post
    LOL my "business" still isn't really a business in the sense that I could turn it into some equity. It's just me doing work for people who either hear about me or see my van. LOL I'm both ashamed and proud. I'm ashamed because I'm sure I could expand and hire help and grow a real business, but I'm also proud that I don't need to do that. I'm able to operate a high end operation without a single ounce of help. I might be stifling my overall revenues, but not my net profits. My secret?: My time is worth nothing to me unless I'm making money so I do not get upset at having to do things and not get paid such as bookwork, taxes, estimates, or anything work related that doesn't pay like getting materials and fixing machines. Now all of those things become expenses once I move to the next level and it's more than I can cover alone. I'm almost there with demand despite zero advetising, but my strategy is to raise the prices and remain less busy. It's working. This mutherfucker gettin paid and putting in 30 hour weeks LOL
    I think this is the best way to own a business. Employees are a pain along with the workman's comp, taxes and regulations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    I think this is the best way to own a business. Employees are a pain along with the workman's comp, taxes and regulations.
    I guess it depends on where you live. I write workers comp a check once a year and once every 3 years they do an audit to verify current pay rates, number of employees, etc, but it is self reported so it takes like 10 minutes. Payroll is a bit of a pain in the ass even with a payroll service because unlike everything else, come tax time you have to deconstruct the totals and insert them in different places in your returns. It is the only thing the IRS goes through with a fine toothed comb. One year we screwed up and didn't zero out the payroll account because the bookkeeper had me make the deposit for the january payroll service fee in December. The next year when we zeroed it out, the IRS had a hissy fit because the carry over from the prior year was used to cover part of the payroll that year which then required a shit ton of documentation and explanation as to why the totals didn't match.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolverine View Post
    Wow, well let me start by saying minimum wage jobs were not supposed to be career jobs rather jobs for high school kids or college kids. Let me further state that if you want to live in a high rent area get a high rent job. You want better pay, learn a skill, get an apprenticeship. No one is stopping them from doing that, sure it will take hard work, but as someone who started with his company 30 yrs ago yesterday, it can be done. Problem is everybody expects great pay to start, and the company car, work hard earn your way up.
    Fuck off!

    You white mofo don't work hard you're privilege allows you to get what you got. You couldn't survive otherwise.

    Fuck off!

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