• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Do you pay those workers significantly less than the value they contribute to the business? What would you call that?

    Independent of that, you may work in the shop, or managing it - that’s a job.

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      11 months ago

      Surely that depends on the individual business? Like it depends on the individual landlord? Some might be good, some might be bad. Pay is often linked to the risk you have invested in your business. A worker in a shop hasn’t taken on thousands of pounds of business loans for example have they? They don’t have to do accounting admin generally. A renter hasn’t taken on hundreds of thousands of pounds of a mortgage have they? They’re not liable for upkeep of the rental property.

      All I’m saying is that they’re good examples of landlords and bad ones. Good examples of shop owners and bad ones. Skewing the perspective to claim there are only bad is deliberately misleading.

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        11 months ago

        Pay is often linked to the risk you have invested in your business.

        This line is routinely trotted out by people who do not understand the very basic facts of limited liability.

        It is trivally simple to establish your business as limited by guarantee, and when done so the risk is literally £1.

        If anyone establishes a business where they are personally liable for any debts, or losses acrued, by that business then they need to seriously reconsider if business management is for them.

        Now, people may well choose to invest personal savings to start a business, rather than take out a loan, but again, rule number 1 of investing is not to invest more than you can afford to lose, so, again, the actual risk is £1.