for the risk taker that allows that business to succeed.
Today we celebrate the workforce directly that builds, transports, and sells the product that kept the risk taker in business long enough to succeed.
Today we celebrate the workforce of the entities that are not expected to make a profit as they serve to reduce the risks and build the general infrastructure, provide security, educate, and provide the other opportunities and common resources by which only 5 - 7% of the risk takers are able to create, build up and operate his or her business and "succeed" as success is commonly understood into a corporate structure by which they can retire in significant wealth and comfort from and still leave their heirs.
Note to self - ask Cantor what he means by "successful". Getting trained and going into a career for wages is taking just as much risk - the significant majority of citizens that work hard in this country works for wages rather than owning their own business, and more and more of them are finding that a job just isn't out there - neither is the seed money to start a business if they had the opportunities or capability of doing so.
If you can work for wages, retire and not be a burden on the kids you sent to college with those wages, that should still be considered successful.
Business is always a team effort.
And frankly, from experience kids who start out with a lemonade stand in the middle of their front-lawn still need significant support structure to even get far enough along to attain what would normally be considered a failure in most other businesses. Even in the old days, everyone - from mom selling cookies or taking in laundry or dad working as a jack handyman/inventor in his spare time needed a customer base, patronage and some form of monetary and infrastructure support over that critical first few years of any business that grew from a part-time family supplement to a successful business.
That is, for everyone except someone born into wealth and a position of power already. Even then, all those lucky people got from their inheritance was a couple steps up; without a solid base, they could still fail - and often do.
Haele
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