Building a small service business with very little outside investment, help, loans, etc. is nearly impossible in an increasingly inflationary environment.

Prices of materials and equipment rise at rates beyond the rates clients are willing to pay so keeping clients who have historically paid for your services at 10% less than you need to charge them is causing owners to further to make the tough decisions of working on thinner and thinner margins.

This is painful. It is painful not only on the business side of life, but also within the home where prices increase at similar or higher rates, if one wishes to raise their children on nutrient dense diets, quality literature, productive property, etc. It is all very painful. It is all very good.

When this backslidden society hits the end of its spiral into debauchery, debt, and death, there will be men who have been taught refining lessons through suffering that they are responsible to pass on to their sons and their sons’ sons. Family units will strengthen, businesses will be centers of quality production rather than cheap debt and cheaper products, communities will protect embrace time-honored tradition and cast out fads. It will be painfully slow, but very good.