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re: entrepreneurs
Tom Brosz — (archived)

There's so much more to it than simple hours worked.

I can only speak of my personal experience with companies I've helped found and worked with. We aren't the kind of company that has blue-collar "assembly-line" workers, per se, so maybe it wasn't the ideal example. We offered spectacular benefits to employees. Maybe we'd have lasted longer if we hadn't.

Yes, the employees are an important part of a business, and smart employers clear back to Henry Ford and beyond knew that to treat them right was to have a better and more profitable company. And yes, there was a lot of abuse years ago, and unions were a reasonable response to it.

Now the pendulum has gone too far. What I said about liberals is true: it is almost impossible for them to even think about business or corporations without assuming that they are, by their very nature, criminals, and need to be treated as such by regulators, labor, and government. Enron is not the whole country.

There is a reason this country is one of the greatest and most prosperous on Earth. Few people recognize what that is nowadays.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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