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Things like cafes, restaurants, cinemas and phone companies are considered independent businesses. But smaller things like personal trainers, personal shoppers, massage specialists and these ones offering companionship for lonely disabled privately are also seen as independent businesses - although they're not working for a big company and are self-employed as the only person working in their own businesses. It's a misconception all independent business owners are rich and some doesn't earn more than the average hired employer. They're also paying taxes like everyone else's. In addition they're not considered "real workers", but "money making machines" in a way. People starts their own businesses because of unemployment or wanting to contribute to the world differently.

Yet there's a difference between which welfare people gets. Someone employed by a business owner or by the state gets much more free money in pension and sick leave than business owners. In addition they gets parental leave and unemployment benefits, while owners doesn't get it. That means an employee who gets fired for bad behavior may get a lot of free money from the state funded by tax payers until he finds a job, while a business owner can't and have to go without any income until he gets hired by someone else if he gets bankrupt. So employers gets basically all welfare the country has, while owners almost only gets basic hospital care and education covered.

I think although the welfare state, tax-, public-system and social democracy are good thing - it's not necessarily to treat business owners too different from average Joe if they doesn't have a bigger income. The reason is because of businesses are needed for the society to develop. #Socialism #Norway

I'm in the U. S. Throughout my life, it has never surprised me to look at any particular item and see the words "made in China" on it. It's just so commonplace that any particular commodity purchased in the U. S. is made abroad, especially China.

A lot of manufacturing and other jobs used to exist here in the U. S. But ever since WW2, and especially throughout the 70s & 80s, a lot of them shutdown and moved to China in order to avoid minimum wage, employee benefits, OSHA / safe workplace laws, etc (the 90s & early 2000s saw technology jobs go to India for the same reasons). True, the price on the items dropped. But the economy went down with it as people were laid-off, and the value of the dollar dropped because America became dependent on other countries to provide goods.

Late last year, Trump started a "trade war" with China. In theory, it should be working in the favor of the U. S. The reality: businesses here in the U. S. are suffering from all of the extra taxes related to Chinese imports. Why are they importing from China? Because they either can't find the items anywhere else, or not at as low of a price. Most people have not felt the impact of this "trade war" yet because businesses are being forced to accept profit losses or are resorting to other measures to keep costs down in order to keep a customer base. For just about every business, especially mom-and-pop local ones, this trade war has been catastrophic to their finances (and ostensibly, their employees). But if our manufacturing jobs hadn't been sent overseas in the first place, this might not have the negative impact that it does.

Would you pay more to buy goods that are 100% made in your own country? How much more would you pay? Why?