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> An exception is if you have a parasitic value-robbing position somewhere which not everyone does.

Could be said for both, business owner and employee. In most businesses, the owner usually pays a small fraction of value generated by any employee. In other places, management builds multiple layers of hierarchy where they simply rob value by being a middleman with adding zero or negative value overall.

Also, some of us prefer the predictable life of doing our best and going home or moving on to somewhere else where that is possible. Many do not have rich daddies showering money one day because they want a hobby and start a business. Here in EU, starting a business at certain nations means mountain of paperwork and infinite laws one can break and go bankrupt without hiring 50 accountants, tax advising and lawyer services.



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