Snowflakes can't do arithmetic, nor any other 'life skills', even if they had a calculator. Try asking them to compute a 10% sales tax add on in their vacuous head -- (eyes rolling).

I was at the mercy of a state employee's union, for several years (until the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in).

In every photo the union published of their rallies, I saw aging, overweight members who I believed would NEVER get an equivalent paying job in the private sector.

If the owner truly had not made a profit in 13 years then bankruptcy is the next step. No money - no job snowflakes.

So, when Unions started, they were protecting employees from some awful business practices. Our past is littered with coal mining companies that paid their employees in "coupons" they could use at the company store, and any attempt to save those coupons was rendered useless when the store would just stop accepting the old ones.

My BFF's grand father helped start the Unions in PA. He was security for these people, because the threats against them were REAL. Rockefeller paid people to set fires, start fights, and do a lot of damage, then he could buy the companies on the cheap.

Overall... Humans can be pretty disgusting people (see banksters).

But at some point, the Unions Became the Baddies. The pendulum swung too far (as is often the case, see DEI, affirmative action, etc).

What scares me is the level of IGNORANCE of these people. At NO point were they offering to forego some of their salaries to get a piece of the profits (an exercise that teaches you that you might already be overpaid if there ever was one, but one that certainly teaches you about RISK:REWARD).

That they could not compute that this could force his company to close is on them. And that he says "It's actually the legal fees" Makes me laugh. Because it's so true. I've backed away from developing 2-3 products in my life, because of the RISKS associated with additional legal fees, and finding a way to insure against claims, while making enough REWARD to make the venture possible. (most companies create veils of corporations, and then just bankrupt them. Which is why most business people suffer at least ONE bankruptcy before becoming successful. Usually they bankrupt themselves the first time, then learn to better structure it, take it less personally...)

And my lesson for my lifetime... Xerox is no more.
A company created because the short-sightedness of so many companies... Creator of the MOUSE, the GUI, etc. etc. Gone. Kodak? Buggy Whips? You get it. There are no companies (outside of banksters, whose bankruptcies are bailed out) that survive forever... Because the world changes...

Reading comprehension is definitely not in their 'skill set'.