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Capitalism succeeds because it combines two primary drives in the human brain: greed and the urge NOT to work for someone else.\u00a0 On the South End most of us tried our hands at employment but came up a little short.\u00a0 Short of a work ethic, short of money, short of tolerance for a Boss.\u00a0 So we did what most desperate, unemployed people do.\u00a0 We started our own business.<\/p>\n
Any good STARTING YOUR OWN CORPORATION FOR THE COMPLETE IDIOT book will tell you under-capitalization is the main harbinger of Failure in 90% of startups.\u00a0 Obviously none of us down here bought the book, probably couldn\u2019t afford it.\u00a0 \u201cIt takes money to make money.\u201d\u00a0 Page 2, Chapter 1.\u00a0 Folks just figure, I guess, they\u2019ll buy a couple of yaks, breed em, then sell the little yaksters to a clamoring public.\u00a0 They don\u2019t really factor in the yak feed, the vet bills, the yak barn and the yak fences.\u00a0 And they NEVER factor in the publicity campaign to create a viral fever for WANTING\u00a0 or NEEDING a yak.\u00a0 Maybe many yaks.<\/p>\n
The other thing they don\u2019t calculate in is how much work self-employment entails.\u00a0 Without overtime.\u00a0 Without benefits.\u00a0 You\u2019re supposed to trade off working for Cap\u2019n. Bligh in return for slaving 80 hours a week for Mr. Wonderful, yourself.\u00a0 Course Mr. Wonderful isn\u2019t issuing paychecks at the beginning.\u00a0 He has yak bills to pay before he pays himself and the debts are growing deeper than yak droppings out in the barnyard.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s little wonder us entrepreneur types, us Job Creators, us Captains of Industry, end up broke, disillusioned and depressed, our dreams shattered, our shacks mortgaged, our divorce rates sky high.<\/p>\n
But!\u00a0 By god, we\u2019re South Enders and South Enders don\u2019t quit!\u00a0 Well, okay, we gave up on our capitalist fantasies of entrepreneurial riches.\u00a0 But we stayed true to our vow never to work for the Man again, never to be a cog in the well-greased machinery of some #@*&!!^# company, no sir!\u00a0 If we have to live poor, so be it.\u00a0 If we have to live by our wits, even if that\u2019s a SERIOUS disadvantage, okay.\u00a0 And if anyone out there is looking for a very nice herd of cute yaks, I think we can help you with YOUR dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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