When they try to spread the entrepreneurial spirit around here, I like to point out that everybody can't be an entrepreneur. Most people, like 90%, can't be entrepreneurs, but have to be the workers working for the entrepreneurs. So, jobs have to be the economic path for most people's prosperity.
It is true that people still could calculate that their chances of being the one out of ten who succeeds at a business is greater than there occurring a socialist revolution.
Charles
^^^^^^
>snit snat wrote:
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>>Also, does anyone know the numbers of desire for small business ownership?
>
>I got it from Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon's The American
>Perception of Class (e.g., pp. 86-87). They argue that the petty
>bourgeois aspirations (their phrase, not mine) of the U.S. working
>class don't necessarily reflect a lack of class consciousness -
>they're aware of getting screwed by the boss - but "self-employment
>- however remote a possibility - seems to offer a more realistic
>chance to escape from working-class subordination than does a
>socialist transformation."
>
>Doug
Being self-employed in the United States must be tougher than being self-employed in Europe, Canada, or Japan, as the US doesn't offer universal health care. Do American workers aspire to be small business owners more than European, Canadian, and Japanese workers do? If so, there is an interesting contradiction: the petty bourgeois aspiration is the most prevalent in a country where being petit bourgeois is tougher than most comparable countries. -- Yoshie