“If we’ve got plenty of jobs, I just go to my competitor and I give him a couple jobs,” said Miller, who is Amish. “I’m here so my employees can make a good, honest living…. I’m not here to collect all the wealth I can absolutely collect.”
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like the wave of economic prosperity that happens whenever agriculture turns to manufacturing, it just happened later in this county because of the large Amish community.
The fact that other local businesses are viable because larger chains aren't available also seems to be a factor, but again, is a wave of prosperity already seen in other communities. It turns out, enabling entrepreneurism is really good for building a middle class!
The trick will be if this wave can continue, or if the prosperity will be overtaken by the capitalistic cannibalism (gentrification) that happens to economically-viable areas. In the meantime, this feels to me like an attempt at a feel-good story that millennials can and should be able to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, just look at the Amish.
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One of my favorite comments from the article:
“If we’ve got plenty of jobs, I just go to my competitor and I give him a couple jobs,” said Miller, who is Amish. “I’m here so my employees can make a good, honest living…. I’m not here to collect all the wealth I can absolutely collect.”
Seems reminiscent of https://world.hey.com/dhh/capture-less-than-you-create-c30e4...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like the wave of economic prosperity that happens whenever agriculture turns to manufacturing, it just happened later in this county because of the large Amish community.
The fact that other local businesses are viable because larger chains aren't available also seems to be a factor, but again, is a wave of prosperity already seen in other communities. It turns out, enabling entrepreneurism is really good for building a middle class!
The trick will be if this wave can continue, or if the prosperity will be overtaken by the capitalistic cannibalism (gentrification) that happens to economically-viable areas. In the meantime, this feels to me like an attempt at a feel-good story that millennials can and should be able to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, just look at the Amish.