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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I dunno, he could try actually making moves to increase his revenue by being a shrewd business owner rather than having a media tantrum. But I guess we the Public should coddle the small business owners that have a right to exist solely because ?reasons?
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Good lord you say some silly things sometimes. It's not that he has a "right to exist", it's that ideally, you'd like to give small business the best possible opportunity to succeed, and there's at least an argument here that policies instituted by various levels of government have actually made it more difficult.
That might be
wrong in this case - maybe the place just went downhill and he lost all his business to better restaurants - but it's certainly not far fetched to suggest that the things he's attributing losses to are actual negative forces for his business.
If those negative forces are in fact too much to handle for a business that already runs on a limited margin and is particularly under strain due to current economic conditions, telling him "be a shrewd business owner and your problems will be solved" is pretty ridiculous. Might as well say "work smarter, not harder", for all that's worth.