[Boeing Guy]

Banjoman spot on.
Its the chicken and egg, without an employer no need for staff, no staff no employer.

My father set up business in 1977, just him and his business partner. I was 8 at the time. So they soon needed to employ and by the early 1980's were quite large, employing over 50 staff. He would go out to work in his BMW 735i at 6am and return at 9 or 10pm weeknights.
Weekends if we were lucky he would have Saturday off which was not often.
Then of course were the business trips abroad, to sell product. His product that he and his partner invented, not the staff.
Better yet the staff started at 9am and finished at 5pm, on Friday they went home at 3pm. Of course they worked hard, but did they work any harder, did their children miss their father every night? No.
Did they resent him for having a nice car, etc... you bet. So in the mid 80's he downsized, had to or go under. Spent several years, yet again away from his family. Now he employs 5 people and has everything outsourced. Has time for his family and why not.

There is a serious problem in the UK with the us and them syndrome. A man or woman sees a opportunity to make money then good for them, whats wrong in that and if you can give someone a job as well then great, nobody owes you a job.
If you work for someone and don't like what your conditions are, then do something about it. It is not rocket science.
To start a business take guts, lots of it and so what if said person whats lots of money, it's their business after all, they own it.

We don't, thank goodness, live in a socialist state, if you want a better standard of life then do something about it, night school for example, or what I did and am still doing, downsize your home, go the bank and pay to retrain, flight training is not subsidized in anyway and this has cost me lots so far. The reward however is very good and so it should be.