If your business model is built on virtual slave labor - your biz deserves to fail

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35. Amen!

Costco business model for everyone! As a matter of fact, this is the way it USED to be. I'm going to give my age away here, but I was a single mom back in the early '70s in a big city. I waited tables at a big hotel. Didn't make much in salary, but I had a load of benefits, plus I made mucho tips. Full health care, shares in the company stock, life insurance, two weeks paid vacation with two free weeks stay in any company hotel in the USA, huge party for the kids in the ball room at Christmas in which each child went home with at least 2-3 very nice gifts.

Then I ended up in the early-mid 80s in a medical field job where I was paid $5 above minimum wage, with full benefits. Had two more children and my insurance paid for every bit of my hospital bills. And these were the days when benefits were still fully paid by the employer.

Now days, if you tell that to people, they think you are lying through your teeth. NOT! That is how much this country has changed since Ronald Reagan came in.

A good place to learn how this all changed is a documentary by the name of "Heist", which informs us of a man by the name of Lewis Powell, who wrote a business manifesto that is loosely called "The Powell Memo." That is where the train jumped the tracks in America. Everything's gone downhill for the 99% since then.