Everything creates a footprint: businesses, people—if you move around your world, or you do things within it, you leave a mark.
However…
It is entirely possible to build a profitable business that treats people—suppliers, employees, invisible members of an invisible supply chain—with care and respect, and causes minimal harm to the world around it.
It comes down to whether you actually want to build a business like that.
You can pretend that nothing bad happens if you can’t see it… or accept that it does, and proactively work to fix what you can.
Start here (have shared here many times).
For self-employed creatives, normal business traps are easy to fall into and overcomplicate things - but they’re totally avoidable when flying solo.
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