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Restore AllHide UnarchivedSeems like universal healthcare would be a huge boon to small companies, then.
Subsidizing health insurance costs for your employees is ridiculously expensive and without that added cost, small businesses could become much more competitive with wages.
With universal Healthcare in the US, people could work where they wanted, instead of just to have Healthcare. It would be a massive change in American culture.
You'd think we would have learned that in the early days of COVID
People dying in the United States from lack of healthcare coverage, or going into crippling debt when they do need care is not a bug it is a FEATURE.
In his case it currently doesn't matter. No employees are choosing to be on the healthcare offered so he doesn't have to subsidize it. When someone does opt in to it he covers 50%.
He is potentially going to buy out the roaster he uses for his beans which should bring costs down a little but he still doesn't have scale like starbucks can have. He also does repair for industrial espresso machines and the like on the side and he says that its more consistently profitable. 50-100$ an hour repairing industrial coffee machinery and apparatus.
He's gonna buy a roaster out but if the store closes 2 days he's in debt? How much does a roaster cost?
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Yes, and it's not a charity either when the mega corporations supported min wage
They're just doing what they have always done, pricing out their competitors
Higher quality service - and convenience - means you can charge more. I'll pay $5 for the barista made coffee around the corner from my home than walking several minutes to the 7-11 to get one and only paying half that amount.
This is Australia BTW - where the national minimum wage is $21.38 per hour - yet there are thriving cafes all over the place.
That’s $21.38 AUD. Which currently converts to $14.32 USD.
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As a small business owner, I wish more of these fools who say you can't afford to run a business if you can't pay a living wage understood the very basics of running a business. Not all jobs are meant to support someone's livelihood (i.e. kids who scoop ice cream in the summer), and the very economies of scale that you speak of. They're always the first to grandstand about supporting small businesses while unintentionally doing the legwork for large corporations through the policy that they support.