This is exactly why I will never start a general contracting company
You get it! You’ve told me about your dad before a couple of times. He sounds like a very good man. I can see where he passed on a lot of good characteristics and ethics. 
On the other hand- If one has to reach back to pre-history to find their happy place, they’re doing it wrong.
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I wonder how much one has control of this? The guy I know who works the hardest, seems to love working. He works 70+ hours a week, and makes a ton of money too. I think he is wired differently than most people though. I couldn’t force myself to do that long term. I think he enjoys it.
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I don’t blame your uncle for complaining about that. I hope he finds something that makes him happy and compensated him well.
Once established, they can be VERY lucrative.
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If anything, franchising, a gym, or a construction management consulting firm.
What made you want to start a business Bauber? Did you start from the bottom, take out a loan?
Just curious, cause that is a hell of a time investment. Personally I like to assume business owners are a “jack of all trades” kind of guy.
Yep. Don’t scratch that off the list just yet @tlgains .
Give it 10 years in the industry, then take another look at the idea.
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I always hated taking orders or being lorded over by idiots - mostly in retail as a student. Always wanted a career where I made the decisions or be my own boss.
So, I ventured into buying houses and flipping them, which turned into rental properties.
People laugh at this but it’s true - I made a pretty penny running farming bots in Diablo 2 and selling the items for real life cash. Did the same thing with Everquest. Taught myself how to write my own macro scripts and was off.
That was my initial startup capital. Dabbled in crypto too and made some decent money there - wisely snatched it out and invested in more property / tangible assets with it.
Used the houses and properties to leverage loans for other ventures and more property.
That is the short and dirty.
I’m not a genius or anything, but people trust me very quickly in business and I’m good with people. Plus, I am honest and do what I say I’m going to do - good or bad. That goes a long way with people.
Went to law school / MBA - paid for both in cash. I was hesitant about its payoff, but it has been a very good investment for me. Finished top third of my class - nothing special, but I was also running 2 business’s at the time.
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He won’t. That’s my point. My dad invested 20 years into a trade to get to the level of of responsibility and respect that he has now. He’s being rewarded for it now, after a couple of decades.
My uncle did nothing of the sort. I love the guy but he spent 20 years goofing off. If he wanted a better paying job or the ability to work less (you need a pretty good job for this to become the case) then he should’ve done something between age 18 and now that would’ve allowed for any of that to happen.
You’re going to school now with the goal of putting yourself in a better situation later in life. Would it be annoying at all if the dude you went to high school with spent age 20-40 smoking weed and playing video games was given the job you applied for instead of you?
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What is the small percentage?
Funny, I read it as the workers/owners who weren’t interested in sharing ownership with those who weren’t going to be working there.
Plus, you completely glossed over the educational and cultural aspects.
Except those in the U.S. correct?
I don’t recall the exact percentage. We went through this last time you brought this up.
Mondragon is run just like a capitalist corporation. The employees can BUY IN or take reduced wages to buy in until their buy in is satisfied.
How is that different from any publicly traded company? Any employee anywhere can buy into their company if it is public. They have a council that makes all the decisions and a parent corporation Ekos Corp. Your average worker is not making any decisions there or voting.
Seems like a lot of extra steps to form the exact thing we have in publicly traded companies here.
Except that they cap what the higher ups can make in tiers of multiples.
You do realize Jeff Bezos only owns 11% of Amazon. Workers own a large portion of it and Jeff Bezos is only paid $80K a year salary.
What is the problem? Are you against the greater good? You seem to champion single-payer systems, so I am telling you that we are propping them up.
What happens when we don’t?
I will tell you - they will get worse than they are now and collapse. Most of Europe aside from the Nordic homogenous zero immigration countries are on path to financial ruin due to their freely offering everything on the backs of the taxpayer.
Oh well, if the great Bauber says so, it must be true. It explains the immense amount of money spent on healthcare. Not the industry ripping off the public with the most expensive drugs in the world or insurance. All for more profit. So the other healthcare systems would just implode if it wasn’t for the U.S. and their advancements? Can’t believe you are trying to sell me this bullshit, based on your feelings. Man, GTFOH!
This shit has been trying to be sold as long as orthodox economists have been crying about the deficit/debt. And how much are given to multi-billion dollar corporations in the form of tax breaks and subsidies? Where do all of those financial breaks come from?
No, but like us with out-of-control spending - it will collapse when your tax base keeps shrinking and you require more and more to keep your ever-increasing indigent population satiated with all the free shit…
I am not trying to sell you anything. Maybe I should sell you some books on how to actually make some money.
Enjoy your subpar life.
Is there a block button on this site?
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Nope. Just explaining to you what the definition of a right is.
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I know this was sarcasm, but The Great Bauber kinda has a nice ring to it ngl.
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@castoli711, I’m still waiting on you to explain how these other countries do healthcare better for less.
Rights defined by natural law vs rights in the constitution aren’t the same. If you look at different countries around the world there are all kinds of “rights” written into their constitutions that aren’t natural rights. So I mean we could make a few amendments defining food or housing a right, but that doesn’t necessarily make it so. Rights under law vs natural rights.
Side note, I would have dissented in Miranda V Arizona.
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He can’t because they don’t
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