Depends on the business. I get the “line must go up” mentality in corporate environments, but I’m thinking of simple manufacturing or retail businesses where it could be as simple as “we need to sell enough coffee to pay for the tables, chairs, flooring, machines to make the coffee, etc etc etc”

It’s not lost on me. But don’t forget that there’s a similar risk of negative money for the owner, and it’s not like large companies aren’t subject to layoffs with the same potential loss of paychecks.

Workers take a risk too when they work for a small company, and are often worse off than the owner when the business fails.

How do you figure? Starting a business (generally) requires a lot of money to lease space, make it usable for your needs, and all those employees you’re paying. Some of that can be liquidated (often at a lower amount than you got it for) other expenses you’re on the hook for. That can add up to be a lot.

Employees can be out pay, and while there’s no doubt that totally sucks, the potential losses are basically limited to how long you kept showing up to work despite no paycheck.

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1. Ew
2. Where is this “privacy focused” product getting the money for that?

“it’s only an hour of homework!”

-Each of your 6 teachers

a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE

Little-known? Really?

I miss the days when satire was fake

It’s a battle of evolution: we lost our ability to do that, but have a decent reflex to catch ourselves from danger. It’s why I don’t fall off a bed. Even when that bed is a hammock on top of a tree.

Cool! I’m not entirely sure because I know little about it, but you may have actually brought up a valid point! It’s a shame we had to climb a mountain of snark and smartassery to get to that possibility.

Can you wake up?

In Korea they say not to leave a fan running overnight. Why? Because it will blow the oxygen away and you’ll suffocate.

Doesn’t mean it’s true.

Well, that’s a brand new sentence!

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I feel like bread’s limited shelf life, and all the nasties that accumulate in a normal mattress from normal use, would make this idea fucking disgusting. Just leave a loaf of bread on your nightstand like a normal person.

When the Denver Post got bought out by a private equity company (you know how that goes), a bunch of journalists from there got together to create the Colorado Sun. It operates on a model similar to NPR/PBS, except federal/Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding was never a thing to begin with.

I’m not sure how well it’s working, but well enough that they’re still around after several years!

The big difference being that one thing being owned is completely inanimate, and the other is a literal human being against their will 🤷‍♂️

Clearly you are much smarter than myself. Can you tell me why renting land/a home is different than any other object that can be owned? Obviously shelter is a greater need than a chainsaw I could rent at Home Depot, but I thought the basic concepts should still apply?

And again, maybe I’m not smart enough to understand what you’re saying, but it seems like land owners (or “speculators”, if that’s the correct term now 🤷‍♂️) prohibit access to everyone except for tenants, and tenants instead have rights to use that property?

As mentioned elsewhere, owning isn’t necessarily for everyone.

What service does the land speculator provide to the tenant?

The ability to live somewhere that otherwise would have been reversed?

I am lucky enough to be able to own a home. I can live here, and nobody else. But if I decided to rent my home out and they paid me rent, they could live here instead!

As Noem is doing now.