Entrepreneur Responsibility
Starting a business comes with a ton of responsibility.
Not just in leading the people on your team, but also in your community.
When anyone is thinking about starting a business, they should ask how it will impact the community around them.
Every business needs to make money to survive, but profit should not be their number one priority. Their business should be helping the community.
This means bringing up the value of property around them and doing outreaches.
There is several type of businesses that hurt the community by bringing down property value.
These businesses prey on low income people and communities.
Here is a list of businesses that hurt a community:
Pawn Shop
Strip Club
Rent a Tire
Cash advance/pay loan businesses
vape shop/smoke shop
Adult video store
Discount store
Low price grocery store
Discount insurance agency
Low price cell phone retailer
Used car dealership
The owners of these type of businesses do not care about the ripple effect that their business cause. Yes they are making money, but they are hurting people at the same time.
Two strong examples:
Strip Clubs help sex trafficking by introducing women to the sex industry.
Pawn Shops sell goods that are taken from people that cannot pay back a high interest loan.
Don’t believe me? Take a stroll around your city. Notice that these businesses are in the high crime/low income areas where as in the nicer areas, not so much.
So remember before you start a business, think about how it affects your community.