19 Jan 2017 11:38 am
You ignore all the overhead in companies. A garage shop might be able to get close to that but not anything bigger. Here is the way it works.Cannonpointer » 02 May 2014 10:35 pm » wrote:Instead of definitions, let's talk functions.
Look at the materials required to construct a solar panel.They cost about $200.00. Add a day's labor to that $200.00, and you've got yourself a solar panel. You could sell iffor $400.00, and you've got yourself a job. So, why isn't anyone doing it?We live in a free enterprise economy, do we not?
Not.
We live in a capitalist economy, which games the system to PREVENT free enterprise. You are not allowed to sell your solar panels without a stamp of approval from Underwriters Laboratories -and they are gate keepers for Wall Street.The cost of shaking hands with UL prevents free enterprisers from operating in that market -and the same thing is going on in almost every market. The little guy is locked out by the engineered and manipulated expense of sitting at the table - locked out. Only Wall Streeters, using OTHER PEOPLES' capital, can afford to play in the game.
We need to go back to a free enterprise economy, where the little guy does not face unsurmountable obstacles to starting a small business.
There are the revenue making employees. They are burdened with the overhead of the company as follows.
All other employees supporting them.
Engineering.
Cost of equipment.
Cost of benches and chairs.
Cost of office equipment.
Utilities.
Building cost and maintenance.
There is probably more I am forgetting. There was a contract to the government I was working on and an accountant explained the no profit loading on it to me. That way I could answer the question about it if asked.