I wonder if it would be possible to create an economic system where everyone's best interests are interlocked, but by natural processes; not law...

For ex: small businesses are better for workers, employers, and consumers.

Why?

Because the best interests of all three parties are aligned and interlocked.

Because the business is so small, the employer needs the employee, the employee needs the employer, and they both need and are needed by the consumer, all in equal amounts.

In an industry filled with small firms competition is fierce; therefore, a reliable and competent team is something to be prized. So the employer will do the best they can to keep their workers happy.

Employees will do their best to be competent and reliable because a) it will be rewarded and appreciated by the small firm and b) if they don't they will become replaceable.

Consumers will benefit from higher quality goods and services, and more options, that are produced when competition between firms is plentiful and intense. Naturally the firms who have the greatest balance between quality and worker satisfaction will be held in the highest regard by the consumer as they will offer the greatest and most consistent value.

If there could be a way to limit firms to get only as big as they can without disrupting this dynamic, I think that would be best for us all.

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Eternity · 26-30, M

@LustControl

Their main problem has been the unions getting too strong and demanding wages that prevented competitive pricing, or quality product

So let me get this straight:

GM failed to balance its want for profit, and the needs of its consumers, with the needs and wants of its workers.

It got so bad that they felt the need to unionize.

And that isnt GM's fault?

Employer, consumer, employee.

The trifecta of commerce.

All three are equally as impotant as the other.

You are coming across as another person (one of very many) who cares mostly about one, a little about another, and nothing about the third.

LustControl · M

@Eternity you come across as someone that knows nothing about how businesses work, have worked in the past and clearly has never run one or could.

Eternity · 26-30, M

@LustControl thats funny because not only do I work, I own a small business too 🤣

Im union; a worker who cares about workers.

I think that is the source of our lack of understanding of one another.

LustControl · M

Biggest boost for employment, and greatest for the economy and consumer has been that “small” business called Amazon.

Eternity · 26-30, M

@LustControl lmao yeah. Small.

MethDozer · M

@LustControl This is too fucking funny.

Lucyy · 22-25, F

Would you say that small businesses are always better, though? Would that not hit a point where someone has a popular business, but is then unable to hire more people/bring in more resources that they need to fulfill demand because they are essentially required to keep their business 'small'? Does that not cut out room for growth, reward, and higher achievement?

Eternity · 26-30, M

@Lucyy better for the workers and for the consumers, yes.

Of course the employers will be belly aching about not being able to monopolize the market, but fuck them.

They will be able to make a sizeably larger amount of money than your average person and not have to work nearly as hard for it.

They can content themselves with that.

Enough of a precedent has been set to know for sure that firms that get too large will inevitably stop doing whatever it is that won them their size and use their sheer weight and monetary might to continue to thrive....at the expense of the worker, mostly, and at the expense of the consumer too.

Cell division is a great thing, but too much and then you've got cancer.

dale74 · M

See in the end you are now wanting legislation to control size. What you fail to realize is legislation is what kills all businesses.

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dale74 · M

@Eternity i have several osha certs and osha is needed for some but like the company i work for is so far beyond osha in safety osha seems like a joke.

Eternity · 26-30, M

@dale74 well, as a construction worker i have a healthy appreciation for OSHA and other legislative bodies that make my work livable...

dale74 · M

@Eternity Europe is so far beyond Osha makes OSHA a joke. But OSHA is better than nothing.

Like2play · M

Plenty of options already. Last thing I need is more.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

Agreed.

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