Depends on who owns the business. If it’s a bourgeois then yes, if it’s the workers themselves then no.
‘Working hard’ is not a virtue per se. You can work hard doing bad things, like exploiting your fellow man.
Exactly, well said. Some of the worst people/entities in history “worked hard” at doing horrific things. Didn’t make the things they did any less horrific.
Business owners have more income than workers, so often they can afford time saving technologies in their personal life (eating out instead of cooking, childcare, etc), which allows them to put more time in their business. This may also be a factor in how hard they appear to work. Because your average worker doesn’t work a small amount of time.
Furthermore, in the case of business owners, their work directly adds value to their wealth, but in the case of workers, working more than what is necessary often doesn’t increase your income at all. So there is an actual incentive for business owners to work hard.
I understand this sentiment. I have friends that are small business owners and they do work hard. So do their employees. My friends however are vacationing in Hawaii while their employees are making minimum wage
It’s not the hard work, it’s the exploitation of labour which is fundamental to capitalism
My friends feel like they are entitled because they took the risk and came up with the idea. But where’d they get the money to start up? Generational wealth. the system creates inherent inequality that isn’t based on 'hard work and merit ’ but on lucky to be born in that country with that skin colour with those parents
It’s the capitalism
The only “risk” being taken is having to work a 9 - 5? What a horrifying toil!
I think small business owners generally do.
Big business, and land owners and their families don’t really work.
It would be a very overgeneralized statement with little meaning. What kind of businesses? How hard, comparatively? If so, so what? Is it relevant if they’re still exploiting others?
Not on its own, but in my experience the kind of people who say that business owners work hard don’t care that other people also work hard, or that the specific business owner that they’re defending by saying business owners work hard definitely doesn’t work hard.
The petit bourgeois work hard when they can’t afford to exploit others yet. They only work hard because they are buying their bourgeois status with their own labor
