I think we are past the point of unionizing and on to the point where we all need to start our own companies. In general you would get a job with a large company to exchange your time for money and the money you get is a fraction of the value you generate for the company. The advantage used to be that this was a low risk way to make money. Large companies were generally stable, and you had a job so long as you didn’t fuck shit up to bad.
However, in today’s job market, even skills that are in high demand don’t have stability. Large publicly traded companies will layoff a mass of people in Q4 to make their bottom line, then assume they can hire back skills they need in Q1 of the next year. All in the name of maximizing shareholder value.
If there is uncertainty in working for someone else and uncertainty with starting your own business, then choose the one were we get more value out of our time. We all have things that we are skilled at, so lets work together and get out from under the corporate grind and the Friedman Doctrine.
This question comes off as very self defeating. It kind of reads as “I don’t have money so I have to be a wage slave”. I don’t really want to engage with it because its so defeatist.
You are right, financing is a problem. It is a problem that you have to solve for when you create a business plan. Or, you can throw up your hand and keep working for someone else and making that someone else money.
It doesn’t matter what business plan you come up with £0 still can’t buy a building or rent a server, hell you can’t even print out fliers to advertise your gutter cleaning services with £0. If you can’t defend your point against the first counter argument it sounds like you didn’t really have much of a point to begin with.
Giving up is not a counter argument.
You form a business and you get client. If you have no money you form a business you can start with no money.
Stop saying it can’t be done. Stop giving up.
That does not sound any different than the corporate grind mate