Advice to all entreprenuers and SMB owners

I for one have now learned that America is no longer entrepreneurial-friendly and will not attempt to build a business that employs other Americans. I will take my place on the employee-side of the equation, do my daily labors, pay my minimal taxes for now, apply for and accept all government assistance for which I am eligible, and in short, become a good socialist. I do not want the headaches of being a capitalist or innovator or small-business person under these new conditions. What time I have left is going to more productive spending it with my family, and friends, and not jousting at windmills.

 

My advice to SMB owners all over the country is the same: sell while you can, get what you can for your business, and then take a non-managerial position and use the profits of your business to supplement your income while spending your time with family and just enjoying life. Let the government provide you with extra spending money in the form of "stimulus checks" and EIC (earned income credit) while you ensure your income is below the levels which make you eligible for these hand-outs.

 

Is this a defeatist mindset? Am I advocating "giving up?" No! I am just suggesting that in this environment of big government, spending and growing centralization, SMB ownership is not a good use of one's time or effort. Maybe in the future it will change, but do not plague yourself with increasing time and effort wasted to make it as a business owner providing employment for an increasingly shrill employee-base bent on demanding the same benefits and perks that you get for being a risk taker. Close your business, fire your employees, and work for minimum wage and come home each night knowing that you are now a "good cog in the socialist framework" of the future USSA.

 

The USA is now unable to right itself, and to continue to fight against the prevailing wind is only a waste of time and effort. Like many SMB (small-medium sized business) owners, we will let the government control the economy along with its "too big to fail" corporations. Working just to give over 60% back to the government just does not seem a prudent expenditure of time and effort. I want to spend time prudently and now its time to rethink how entrepreneurial effort will be valued in the USSA.

 

I will soon be going to spend time as an apprentice with an Amish family in central Ohio; to learn the concepts of "non-powered" carpentry, living from and on the land, and in condensation, simplifying my life from the high tech, high finance drudgery it has been. I am going to reduce "my void" as I call it (see my personal blog on fixing yourself : http://youcanbefixed.blogspot.com ) for more information on the concept of the personal void.