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It's not uncommon in Washington/Oregon to find a coffee shop that's just like a port-a-potty sized booth and one or two employee-owners. Some of them are quite popular. Probably <30k to startup, anybody with several years work experience could probably max out a bunch of credit cards and do it.

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My wife and several of my friends have worked in those. Depending on the area they are insanely competitive, and you need good local industry contacts to get supplies and know the market. But it's absolutely a low cost path to owning your own coffee shop.

pretty soon you need a couple helpers. Then a couple more. Then they form their own union and you're back to square one.

And they will be happy to have one, because unions are great to workers/s. So there are no solutions? There are no competitive unionized business? Why not? Maybe if all the Business need to be unionized, so there will be no advantage one over the other?

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