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Jon-Erich said:
TallSilhouette said:

Poor people should never run a business larger than they can afford to properly support. You can be a business of one. If you're starting out and can't afford full time employees with livable wages, do the work yourself and don't hire others until you can. If you can't get the proper loan yet but really need the extra hands, hire part timers and odd jobs to supplement, but not replace. If you really expect others to fully committ to getting your business off the ground without proper compensation, they deserve a percentage of the company. If you're unwilling to do any of those things, you don't deserve to be in business.

Unless your business involves running a youtube channel of being a web designer or something you could actually do on your own, that's impossible. You can't run a restaurant on your own. You simply cannot. In fact, with the restaurant business, you're probably going to lose money for the first two or three years before it takes off, if it takes off. In a small retail establishment, it may not be impossible to run it on your own, but still very difficult. 

What you're proposing just isn't economucally feesable, especially since some of the business owners can't even pay themselves a living wage. Also, under a business plan such as yours, all of your entrepreneurs would end up moving to the south since living expenses are far cheaper than the north or west coast. 

It is possible; it's called a food stand (or truck). There are tons of businesses you can start solo (or with equal share partners) that don't require expensive facilities or large staff until you're ready for them. No one owes you the type of business that does require them if you don't have the means or ingenuity for it. No one is entitled to a business they can't run properly. It's not okay to underpay your employees just because you want to be the boss but weren't born rich.