When a person has an idea for a product or service, or they work on developing a talent, and puts in the time, the work, and the effort into developing it; it is that individual who deserves the fruit of that labor, and no one else.
As long as that person pays the remunerations all parties agreed on, to the people who helped them along the way, and meets all legal obligations; then all other rewards belong to them. It belongs to them because it is their idea, their product, their talent, their work behind it.
When a person starting a business, or trying to develop an idea runs into financial difficulty, that individual still has to meet his or her obligation to pay workers, whether or not the business makes a profit.
The entrepreneurs are the ones who have to deal with legal issues. When someone threatens to sue them, they are the ones who have to defend the business, and deal with the stress of the situation. They have to hire lawyers and pay the exorbitant fees for lawyer services .
When people accuse the business of being unscrupulous, taking shortcuts, not following regulations etc. it is the entrepreneur who has to content with that.
They workers seldom know what is going on behind the scenes. They don’t experience sleepless nights because a competitor is trying to ruin them. It is the entrepreneur who who wakes up at 2 am after going to bed at 12:29 because he was trying to resolve a problem that threatens to put him out of business.
The workers show up happy to put in their time, clock out and draw the checks they freely agreed to in exchange for their work, without any idea of what it takes to continue receiving them.
Workers don’t experience the anxiety, the uncertainty the business owner deals with constantly. They don’t know the fear of failure that is common for the entrepreneur. They don’t know what it is to sacrifice family in pursuit of business success, or making their idea work.
No one but the entrepreneur has days of simply running out of options, and just taking chance on himself by using his mortgage money, or rent money, or failing to meet some other obligation, to invest in their dream just to keep it alive.
When the banks come knocking, they do not knock on the doors of anyone else but the entrepreneurs.
Then when the business is finally successful, problems do not diminish. They have to continue dealing with all the pressures, and unseen circumstances and challenges that continue going on behind the scenes of running a successful business.
As the entrepreneur begins to reap the rewards of his business, along comes some envious socialist who demands that she distributes to others what she has earned, because it is unfair for one person to have so much money while there is so much suffering in the world.
Or they tell you that the profits should be distributed equally among the workers because it is the workers who built the business. They say that no one person should have all of that money, and that it is unfair because there are so many who do not even earn in one year what the entrepreneur earns in a week.
They become greedy, covetous, resentful, and filled with jealousy, demanding that the Government take more and more of what the entrepreneur has built. Why?…because it is unfair for one person to have so much while so many have so little. That’s the excuse.
They think that the Government should be the arbiter of fairness with other people’s money. The free exchange of goods and services between suppliers and customers, or the free willed agreement between employers and employee is never good enough for them.
They want Government to move in with the power and force of the state to make all things “fair,” or “equal,” whatever any of that means.
Some of them even espouse the idea that the entrepreneur should not have the right to leave his fortune to whomsoever he or she chooses. Not even their children should be able to inherit all of their wealth.
Some outside bureaucratic government agency or law should be in charge of deciding how that money should be dispersed. We know with government being as efficient and resistant to corruption as they are, that is bound to go swimmingly.
The idea of personal property means nothing to them. They think that because some people are selfish and greedy with their own stuff they have earned or acquired, then they should lose their God given rights of ownership.
The attitude of these socialists, demonstrates the worst of human nature. It’s built on greed, envy and resentment, disguised as compassion. They look at what others have and think they have a right to it, or the government has a right to it on behalf of others.
These qualities are just as bad as the greed they condemn. It is perhaps even worse, but they don’t see it.