John Travise, as the daughter of a small business owner, you’re far from the truth. My family’s business cost them their house. It sucked their marriage dry. Those employees were making a wage; my parents didn’t take a wage for the first two years of owning the business because they couldn’t afford it. The fact that you are generalizing all business owners as rich, spoiled people is insulting to the thousands of business owners that are struggling to make their business thrive while staying out of foreclosure.

And as the daughter of a business owner, I’m insulted that you think that we all drive nice cars and get whatever we want. My sister and I had jobs, bought our own cars, paid (or took out loans) for our tuition to college, and paid our own rent while we were there. When I wanted to study abroad, I worked two separate jobs to make sure I could pay for it. When I wanted to go to college, I applied for scholarships and again, worked every hour I could to make sure that check cleared come September. Seeing our parents struggle with their business gave us the drive to get things done ourselves because we knew that relying on our family financially wasn’t an option.

Business owners are human. And if you think it’s so easy to make a million running a business, try it and get back to me when it fails before five years goes by.