Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Operating a business is risky: you can't be sure how many customers you'll have, or ...
Operating a business is risky: you can't be sure how many customers you'll have, or what they'll ask for. If you guess wrong, you'll either have too few workers to serve the crowd, or you'll pay workers to stand around and wait for customers. This is true even when your "business" is a "hospital."
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