Date: 8/23/2018
The success of small businesses depends on well paid customers with disposable income. More people work for others than own small businesses. Many of the products we want, such as automobiles, depend on a large number of people working, building something, in other words, a large company. In most small businesses the best paying jobs are reserved for family, so there is not a lot of upward mobility.
Many local companies no longer produce a product. They have become importers of what they used to produce because they prefer to use cheap foreign labor. Is that building a community?
If one wants to save small businesses one must consider saving the wage structure of the customers of those small businesses. While people may argue over protectionism versus laissez-faire capitalism, one things is certain, when your customers go down the chute, so do you.
Robert Joseph Underwood Springfield
