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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

And 'support local business' libs have given them this complex that they're a social good and any hardship they face as a business owners real or imagined is a form of martyrdom for the greater social good. The poor small business owner can't afford the new minimum wage proposal and big business will eat up all the smol babies etc. At least big business owners played the game and won, they were out competed in the capitalist market they paricipate in and endorse and want our sympathy for being the smallest predator in the pond and that we ought to believe it's socially constructive to throw ourselves into their mouth because their ego says they should be a shark? Fuck that, let em be the chum to the sharks that already are out there for all I care. The person who owned the hole in the wall vegan restaurant I previously worked at still took time off from.the business she ran over Christmas to be a part time postal worker and deliver mail, cutting out what is a sweet yearly possible entry to an amazing long term union gig as a postal worker if you don't wash out after Christmas and keep up the hours. She also bought rental properties that her husband renovated and then she resold. They're all absolute scum on equal level, they're the ones with any stake in this imaginary competition where they were doomed from the start but lacked the sanity to realize it and unless they offer workers a better deal than the big guy, they can take a fucking hike. They decided to be capitalists, apparently taking the risk is why they deserve to exploit workers so, here's your risk assholes, when you sit down at the table you may go bust.