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Why do so many people feel they're owed a job? When founding a company the market certainly doesn't give the entrepneur a break.

You get money, you work, that's the end of it. If someone was ever offered 2x their salary elsewhere, 99% of people would change jobs immediately.

Businesses exist to make money and employees go to work to get a bit of that money. What's up with any other delusions?



They are not. Luckily AI will soon replace most of them and they can finally starve or something like that.


An insolvent business pays no salaries, and that's where you'll end up running an enterprise like a charity.




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