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So as not to completely derail another thread;
Referencing business regulations, creating a powerful administrative class is a natural divider of the classes. On the one hand, there are large and powerful entities that have the resources to understand and exploit regulations. They can pour money and effort into the study and implementation of said regulations to their benefit. On the chance they run afoul and are fined, they simply pass that cost to consumers.
What that does is create a disadvantage to those operating in the same arena, but on a much smaller scale. Those businesses lack the resources such as lawyers, human resources departments, or outside consultants to properly understand the regulations they are subject to. Furthermore, should they not comply in some fashion, any penalty can be potentially fatal to the operation.
That leaves the poor. This is a group that are doing business, in general, of the grid. There are no licences, permits, or for that matter, proof they ARE doing business. This is highly exacerbated when you have a population artificially magnified by illegal undocumented people.
Any money being made by the "business owner" is by a large percentage funneled back into the parent country, while those that are exploited by them are paid subsistence at best.
At the same time, any legal citizenry gets shoved out of the occupation they are in, and in the current iteration are either on government doles, or working far below current station.
This naturally, and automatically, divides and deepens the rift between rich and the poor.
Large concerns exploit and thrive under the regulation umbrella, smaller legitimate concerns buckle under the strain trying to keep up, that allows the larger concerns to absorb that clientele, all the while allowing the low grade "black market" to subside on those that cannot afford any middle ground, reasonable product.
The place for the legitimate small business is being squeezed out of the picture.
In the case of construction, those that thrive have to have storefronts, secretaries, accountants, retained legal, maybe a controller, and the field staff to support all that overhead. So only upper-middle class on up can afford their services.
Meanwhile, that leaves, in general, the scraps and clients you want nothing to do with (like flippers) that hit the Home Depot Unemployment Office and take advantage of those conditions. They can treat those people like servants because they don't want trouble with the law.
Now things may change and probably get worse the more we welcome in illegals, but that's how it works now.
There is an obvious and glaring reason the middle class is disappearing.
Brent.
Referencing business regulations, creating a powerful administrative class is a natural divider of the classes. On the one hand, there are large and powerful entities that have the resources to understand and exploit regulations. They can pour money and effort into the study and implementation of said regulations to their benefit. On the chance they run afoul and are fined, they simply pass that cost to consumers.
What that does is create a disadvantage to those operating in the same arena, but on a much smaller scale. Those businesses lack the resources such as lawyers, human resources departments, or outside consultants to properly understand the regulations they are subject to. Furthermore, should they not comply in some fashion, any penalty can be potentially fatal to the operation.
That leaves the poor. This is a group that are doing business, in general, of the grid. There are no licences, permits, or for that matter, proof they ARE doing business. This is highly exacerbated when you have a population artificially magnified by illegal undocumented people.
Any money being made by the "business owner" is by a large percentage funneled back into the parent country, while those that are exploited by them are paid subsistence at best.
At the same time, any legal citizenry gets shoved out of the occupation they are in, and in the current iteration are either on government doles, or working far below current station.
This naturally, and automatically, divides and deepens the rift between rich and the poor.
Large concerns exploit and thrive under the regulation umbrella, smaller legitimate concerns buckle under the strain trying to keep up, that allows the larger concerns to absorb that clientele, all the while allowing the low grade "black market" to subside on those that cannot afford any middle ground, reasonable product.
The place for the legitimate small business is being squeezed out of the picture.
In the case of construction, those that thrive have to have storefronts, secretaries, accountants, retained legal, maybe a controller, and the field staff to support all that overhead. So only upper-middle class on up can afford their services.
Meanwhile, that leaves, in general, the scraps and clients you want nothing to do with (like flippers) that hit the Home Depot Unemployment Office and take advantage of those conditions. They can treat those people like servants because they don't want trouble with the law.
Now things may change and probably get worse the more we welcome in illegals, but that's how it works now.
There is an obvious and glaring reason the middle class is disappearing.
Brent.
