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I own a business. I create the jobs that pay the taxes that makes a fireman's job, the teacher's job, the policeman's job, the construction worker's job possible.
You have no manager?
Are you the only business i the nation, state, or town in which you live?
Once again I ask you whether your profits are more important than justice.
I pay the employment taxes (employers half) for my employees that makes the entire social safety net possible. Without entrepreneurial people like me, people that take risks, the entire system fails.
And without your workers, you fail. Should every American labourer skip out on jury duty because they are the backbone of the entire system- since there is no you without the proletarians who labour under you?
You're not the only petty bourgeoisie in America any more than your employees are the only employees in the nation. You taking some time to put the existence of a just society before personal profits will not destroy the economic system (or what's left of it).
Teachers, cops, and fireman are valuable jobs, but they do not really create anything
Really?
Teachers create the entire nation. They mold the minds that will inherit and control this nation. There is no job more important than caring for, rearing, and educating the nation's youth. Teacher's, babysitters, and others entrusted with that responsibility are the most important persons in any society.
Fireman don't create anything? They aren't crucial to creating an environment where you can go to work confident that your home and pets will be protected should a fire break out? Police aren't crucial for creating and keeping a just and peaceable society? You've shown that you create only capital at this point. Capital is not necessary for society's existence and societies existed for thousands of years (millions, if we count our ancestors) without capital in such a form.
They are dependent upon taxpayers for their existence.
Privatized firefighting services were a disaster. You claim they depend on you, but at the same time you depends on the teachers to form the future of your country and on the police (along with the rest of the justice system) to keep you safe so that you can go about your business and create your capital confident that you will not be robbed or that, if you are, the guilty will be hunted down and tried.
If all I cared about was myself I could stop working today, sell the buildings I own, move to a tax haven (like the Caymans) and never have to work another day in my life.
Those who achieve wealth are oft possessed by it and never satisfied.
Instead I chose to be significant, not just successful.
To be truly significant, you'd dedicate the time to ensuring a just society and not only recognize the important of those teachers but seek a way to aid them. The effect and significance would be far greater than any amount of capital your might create for yourself and the labourers in your company.
There are more important things in life than money.
Like justice.
I will continue to throw jury summons' and census forms into the trash and never lose a wink of sleep over it.
Again you prove that you value capital over justice. For all your attempts at justification it is, by all signs, greed alone that motivates your actions.