@m60driver wrote:
@maxine*j wrote:
@deosil111 wrote:
Is eBay helping the Current administration destroy small business?
No.
Most small businesses fail, sadly. I believe the statistic is that half fail within five years and two-thirds are gone in ten.
You need to change your numbers to 2 and 5 years.
And it is not the current administration destroying small business, that is just Trumpian nonsense. Large corporations have always been at the forefront of removing competition, it is the essence of US style capitalism. The political economy is rigged against small business just as it is rigged against the wage earner. You want change then change the political economy and bring back the New Deal which was eviscerated by a long string of administrations, led by Republicans, but including Dems such as the Clinton administration. Listen to folks Iike Bernie Sanders and Robert Reich, stop perceiving "socialism", the heart of the New Deal, as an anathema, and stop voting against your own economic interests.
Thanks for the correction on the numbers, meaning the failure of small businesses is even worse than I said.
I did grant that government regulation plays a role, as it always has. And big fish trying to gobble up all the little fish is the way of the world and always has been. (I will grant you that sometimes, some government actions can make that a bit easier or a bit harder but they can never stop it.)
I think we agree that there hasn't been a spit's worth of difference between Republican and Democratic administrations since about the Eisenhower administration. For me, I've wished a pox on both their houses for at least the past 50 years.
Nevertheless, my belief is still that most small businesses fail because most of them are started by people who don't know what they're doing and don't have the self-discipline to learn.
Look at the constant posts we get here from people who don't understand how credit cards work, don't know that carrier insurance is for the benefit of the seller and not the buyer, don't know what a sales tax is and often don't even know the difference between sales tax and income tax, don't know what a contract is, don't even know there is a Uniform Commerical Code much less know any of it relevant to them, and demonstrate customer service skills that make eBay's look good. And on and so on.
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evry1nositswindy • seller since 2013
