Is profit different from unfair tax? Part 2

[Arrian]

Even though you have saved some of your money you will not be a billionaire. Some of us may become billionaires, but the great majority will be working for someone else until we die. In short, you're still a worker.

Goddamn server ate my post.

Anyway, yeah I'm a worker. I prefer it that way. I *could* scrape together what I've saved, go get a loan, and open a business of my own, had I the inclination. I don't do that for several reasons, including the fact that it's risky and that I know it would mean more work for me. See, though I'm not a billionare (fine by me, frankly), I work my 8 hours and I go home, and that's that. Not so with most business owners - particularly small businesses.

Not everyone will own their own businesses, that's true. But, like me, many DON'T WANT TO. Rather than "own the means of production" and devote ridiculous amounts of my life to making sure the business is profitable, I'd frankly rather work my 8 hrs and leave work at the office at the end of the day.

-Arrian

[Japher]

I have been tossing around the idea of starting my own buisness in a field totally different than what I do now. I have studied for about 2 years on it now, and really have made up my mind. Coorprate life is so much laxer. I will never make the big bucks doing what I am doing, but at the same time I am home for my wife every night (something I use to not be able to say) and I know that I will make enough to cut a peice of the pie, put my kids through school, and retire comfortably.

Am I being exploited? On one level yeah, because I know that I could do so much more for myself. On another level no, because I chose not to do that. Thus, I choose to be exploited. As I see it you are either exploited or being exploited; there are really no inbetweens. Yet, this is a choice, so in the grand scheme of things you really aren't being exploited rather you are letting others exploit you... I guess the thing is; you can't be exploited if you have the power to make the choice.