My parents are immigrants from India to thr US. They started off incredibly poor but by the time I was an adult they had 2 thriving gas stations. We currently make around 200000 a year between 4 people which is decent for the small town we live in.
We own our own house and split the bills pretty much equally.
I’m planning to open a liquor store with the 100,000 that I’ve saved over the past 4 years. We have no employees. We all work 6 days a week and that averages to around 50-60 hours a week for each of us. I also work another 20 hours a week at a restaurant as a server.
When I open my liquor store we will have to hire employees because we don’t want to work 90 hours a week.
I’ve done the math and for the store to be worth the money we invest we couldn’t pay more than $12 an hour. I feel bad doing this because I would never take a job where I was only paid $12 an hour.
I feel guilty exploiting people like this but there’s no other option for opening this store.
Am I a bad person for paying $12 an hour? The minimum wage here is 7.25 but I think the average wage is around $10