This post/story is about basic human decency. Yesterday i came across a horrible person, who misbehaved a small restaurant owner while paying for some eggy bread, pork pie & tea. He was short of some cash even though he came with entire family in a BMW X5. His argument started escalating over Apple pay, that too in a small & new cash only eatery. Later he went to ATM, withdrew some cash & paid for his food. According to his words; if you aren’t accepting Apple pay, you should go back to country side & he was some engineering design sector corporate employee for BAE systems. The words he used against that restaurant owner made me question his upbringing & it also made me understand what a highly educated asshole looks like. We live in a materialistic world where we literally judge someone looking at their clothes/house/car/phone/financial status, last comes their EDUCATION, QUALIFICATION, PERSONALITY & BEHAVIOUR, that too only if we enjoy a healthy interaction. So, Why these so-called few corporate employees belittle street food trucks or small restaurant owners in their head!?

Because as i mentioned “Materialistic world” & “Corporate Employee”, let’s talk about the money part first. Any engineer/banker/software developer/analyst with 3-5 years of job experience makes easy 140-180k salary per annum, no matter it’s Dollars/Euros/Pounds. Social security+Insurance+Tax, combined all are around 38-42% of entire income in most developed countries. Now monthly in hand salary comes close to 7200-8700 Dollars/Euros/Pounds.

Let’s talk about the small scale business owner who runs a food truck or a street food restaurant, here an easy quick meal costs 7-10 Dollars/Euros/Pounds. It can be a full english breakfast/Tacos/Pastrami Sandwich/Doner kebab/Pizza or a salad with tea/coffee/any kind of drink. They receive 80-90 such orders during lunch hour, mostly regular customers during that afternoon rush hour. And casually another 100-120 orders at evening because that’s the preferable time to cater tourists/students/kids/young people/couples. Total around 200 orders of 7-10 bucks food product, gross easy 1700 bucks everyday. Sunday everything is closed. So it comes to 1700×26=44200 worth of sales in a month, not the profit amount. If you deduct the raw ingredients+gas+rent+electricity+4-5 employees salary from that 44200, that small scale business owner is still left with easy 13000-14000 Dollars/Euros/Pounds in his hands every month.

Tried to show you an easy estimation in both scenarios. I am saying it from my experience. I know a half golden brown Indian brit who lives in Berlin, he started a ghost kichen sourdough pizzeria in Alexanderplatz in the middle of pandemic (August-2020). Now it’s a small yet busy full blown cafe, he is planning to make it a full service pizzeria restaurant as his business grows consistently. His cafe is open only 4 hours every evening, but he makes way more money compared to my current MNC salary. MNC means multinational companies like Google/Microsoft/Oracle. Even in terms of money, a small scale business owner enjoys a better financial stability compared to any employee from any sector. The good part is, EVERY BUSINESS OWNER IS HIS OWN BOSS. They work their ass off for their family, so that family can enjoy a life worth calling it a LIFE. I have studied 4 years bachelor’s in engineering, then MBA in finance & marketing, now i am a data analytics PhD research scholar (still a student), i also have 4+ years of job experience as a fintech data/research analyst & software developer. I bet that person who started a small mediocre petty drama must have studied something similar like i did. And most of the time people who work at multinational companies imagine they enjoy the best lifestyle compared to rest, which could be 100% true in most cases. But does that allow anyone to be a jackass on streets? We can’t solve any issue by cursing & shouting. Education is not just there for earning a qualification/degree. If education isn’t making you humble, grateful & a better human, then you are simply a waste of time & waste of energy for society.

(Forgot to schedule this post on Sunday. When i mentioned yesterday above, i am talking about an incident from Saturday. The small restaurant owner i mentioned is one of my friends from A-level days. And the cafe/pizzeria i mentioned below, I also meet that grumpy individual sometimes while flexing my muscles at gym mirror.)

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