So this isn’t at all in response to what you wrote or this specific situation, but your comment spurred this out of me regardless, so feel free to ignore.
To clarify, the small business owners that he regularly screws aren’t “greedy,” they’re jumping at a chance to grow their business. I fell for this trap once, the billionaire even flaunted to me about how he was in the process of suing his former partners because they “screwed him.” Well, I wanted so badly for the deal to be real (because it would mean growing my business to the point that I could hire on employees, talking maybe a dozen or so $22/hour jobs that would have meant solidifying the business. I could finally invest in some much needed machinery, find a better location… so many things I wanted to do with that sale) that I ignored all the red flags. Ended up getting royally screwed, lost everything. Business, assets, all of it. Gone.
Chalk it up to inexperience, and naivety of trusting a billionaire to operate in good faith and in accordance to the contract he signed (and to a greater extent naivety that our justice system worked for poor people). But greed? I wouldn’t call it that.
If an extreme desire to grow your business to a degree that it clouds your judgement ISN’T greed … you should revisit the definition of greed.
Not all greedy people are rich.
Man i trusted someone to do what they signed a contract SAYING they would do. I wasn’t over charging them, I wasn’t doing anything shady besides trusting someones word. I’m not the one who deliberately fucked over a small business, that’s the other guy. I trusted someone rich to pay me what they owe and I got fucked.
But yeah just call me greedy, cool.
If they signed a contract, ream their ass in court.
If you signed a contract that cannot be enforced in court … again, blinding greed or rampant stupidity for a business owner.
thats a lot of words to say ‘its not greedy to grow your business’, but i would counter your greed clouded your own naive judgement. which , to my point, is only human.
who are you trying to convince?
you’re victim blaming. do you do the same to rape victims? say it’s their fault because they’re sluts? I shouldn’t have dressed like a business owner who wants to get screwed, sorry, that’s my fault. I should have covered up.
Good comment but you just fleshed out a real life scenario where a rich grifter fleeced you by appealing to your greed. You just replaced the word greed with “growing your business”. Im not greedy, I have good REASONS! Donald has damn good reasons for his behavior as well, probably “growing his business”, and certainly doesnt see himself as greedy.
See also; The only moral abortion is my abortion
yeah i did nothing but trust someone who signed a contract saying they would pay me for the goods and services i provided. I didn’t do anything shady, I trusted someones word, and I lost everything because of it. but yeah, I’m greedy. wtf is a small business owner supposed to do, turn down every opportunity because the person their dealing with is rich? That for some reason the failing of the justice system to account for rich people abusing the court system to fuck over small business, and you’re saying it’s MY FAULT they did that to me?
“well you shouldn’t have trusted him”
do you say that to rape victims too?
