salary for 3 months - he had to pull out all of his personal savings to make payroll for his employees who were paid fully during that same time period.
2 years later they are starting to show a small profit.
Thanks to him and guys like you, many in this country have employment and benefits that they too often take for granted.
Most business owners will tell you that their success is directly tied to how well their employees do their job. For that reason employees wages should be tied to their employer's success in order to create an environment where everyone is trying to help the company succeed.
When an employee's wage is tied to how benevolent their government is it leaves the business owner on an island by himself trying to make his business work. The employees no longer have an incentive, since the government decides their paycheck.
A terrible way to run a marketplace.