#and you're outsourcing labour to Bali

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So my mum has been a failed entrepreneur my entire life. I don't have a meaningful memory where she hadn't been trying to build a business no one wanted along side it. And while she isn't a Boomer, she is Gen X, I feel like a lot of Gen X'ers are also being thrown into the convo with Boomers. And good. They ought to be. They're not better.

But listening to her talk about finding staff was repulsive. Like, the idea of hiring actual, minimum wage labour, wasn't even on the table.

The two options were

1) outsourcing the labour to Bali because, as she saw, the cost of living there was so low, that she didn't feel the need to pay more than extremely little. And she believe that folk working there would be grateful to earn that much.

Or 2) Making her kids do it, and relying on good natured helping out as the basis for actual labour.

My insight from this is that there is absolutely no empathy going on behind those motivations because the business owner see themselves as worthy of other people's empathy first and foremost.

They are the disgruntled shift employee trying to turn it big. They are the underdog fighting against the system and paving their own way. They are the business owner, taking on all the risk, and they are willing to give someone special the chance to earn something of a wage, and get them in on the ground floor of their exciting business.

There is no sense of developing an internal community; looking out for staff so that the staff will return the favour. The expectation is that the staff deliver up front because the business owner, on a much broader level, deserves it.