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Posted - 2013.02.05 17:26:00 -
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Always amused by these threads.
It's like telling a small business to just become a billion dollar multinational corporation if it wants to compete with them. If they can't do that, then they're just bad at business, right?
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Posted - 2013.02.05 17:48:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:If you decide to create a small business that produces a product or service that a huge multi-billion dollar corporation already produces better and cheaper than you can, you deserve to get stomped out of existence. Small businesses should stick to doing things they can do better than the "big boys" can.
This is hard to understand why?
Because it's flawed logic. They can't possibly compete, or do anything better than a multinational with more resources. If you haven't noticed the effect of a new Wal-Mart on small businesses within a community you're just not paying attention.
What you're advocating is essentially the destruction of all small business because you can get cheaper stuff elsewhere, which makes it ok.
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Posted - 2013.02.06 05:07:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:Nope, small businesses can survive by NOT competing with wal-mart, but by finding a niche it's hard for a big ponderous thing like Wal-mart to do. Like the mom and pop hardware store in my dad's home town. They knew they couldn't compete with cheap tools and materials from wal-mart, so they morphed their business into a "come to you" home repair business that buys cheap materials and tools....from wal-mart (and Home Depot) and survived.
Until a multinational does that better and cheaper, putting them out of business, and people like you show up to tell them "tough luck".
But back to EVE: There isn't a variety of ways for a smaller independent alliance to carve out a place for itself in 0.0. They simply can't compete with larger alliances, so my example still applies.
"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi |
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