Current Events > I'm fucking sick of the romanticization of Small Businesses

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"small business" is a vague concept. it's nothing but a neoliberal talking point.

businesses are capitalist institutions. they are exploitative regardless of their size. many of them do shitty things to their workers to get by, and many of them get away with it for no reason other than their size

seeing so many people like "tHeSe PrOtEsTs ArE hArMiNg SmAlL bUsInEsSeS" makes me want to pull my own hair out

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you want all business to burn though

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Yeah, most people aren't communists and don't think like you do. I figure you'd be used to it

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Tc supports the killing of children when it benefited a cause he stands for.

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socialists hating workers they pretend they do everything for, must be a day that ends in Y

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Balrog0 posted...

Yeah, most people aren't communists and don't think like you do. I figure you'd be used to it

as shocking as it may seem, talking to a brick wall gets frustrating sometimes

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Romulox28 posted...

socialists hating workers they pretend they do everything for, must be a day that ends in Y

that's quite a bit of a leap there

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The term "small business tyrant" has a lot of value.
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Thank you, I dont give a fuck about small businesses. One in my neighborhood is owned and operated by a dude who prostitutes teenage girls.

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I don't think you should paint them all with the same brush. Are Delis and Barbershops really where you want to take the anti-capitalist fight to?

Making us look bad, bruh

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BathroomWater posted...

Thank you, I dont give a fuck about small businesses. One in my neighborhood is owned and operated by a dude who prostitutes teenage girls.

So because you know of one small business that is bad, that means all small businesses are bad too?

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averagejoel posted...

businesses are capitalist institutions. they are exploitative regardless of their size

Posted from My iPhone to gamefaqs.gamespot.com, owned by CBS.

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Happy_Tristesse posted...

I don't think you should paint them all with the same brush. Are Delis and Barbershops really where you want to take the anti-capitalist fight to?

Making us look bad, bruh

I'm actually not a socialist but I agree with Joel on this one

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you only think that way because youre stupid and have a lazy way of thinking

all good

TheApexPredator posted...

So because you know of one small business that is bad, that means all small businesses are bad too?

Im saying theres nothing inherently good about being a small business.

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This is a shit take. You guys have some crazy delusional rambling about capitalism. Whats wrong with yall. There are plenty of small businesses owned and operated by hard working people. Some people spent their life savings on it

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there have been some awful topics in the history of this site, and this belongs in the top 10

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No lies necessarily detected. My favorite restaurant in the world, despite my love of the food, was a shitty place to work at according to my younger brother, with rubbish pay and highly uneven hours. And this was a nice place to eat.

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deupd_u2 posted...

Posted from My iPhone to gamefaqs.gamespot.com, owned by CBS.

None of this is relevant at all

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darkprince45 posted...

This is a shit take. You guys have some crazy delusional rambling about capitalism. Whats wrong with yall. There are plenty of small businesses owned and operated by hard working people. Some people spent their life savings on it

Any business that has employees can suck it

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Burn ALL businesses!

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Happy_Tristesse posted...

I don't think you should paint them all with the same brush. Are Delis and Barbershops really where you want to take the anti-capitalist fight to?

Making us look bad, bruh

I'm not painting them at all, and you're the first one to mention Delis and Barbershops

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Businesses in the US are shitty. That doesn't mean businesses the world over are shitty

Capitalism with a sense of ethics, enforceable by law if necessary, can and already does work.
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TheApexPredator posted...

So because you know of one small business that is bad, that means all small businesses are bad too?

no one is saying that they're bad though. I don't care about "bad." "bad" is even more vague than "small business." I'm saying that they're exploitative, which is an objective description of the way they function

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Any business that has employees can suck it

Wtf lol

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averagejoel posted...

I'm not painting them at all, and you're the first one to mention Delis and Barbershops

Those are small businesses... you are aware of what a small business is right?

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teepan95 posted...

Capitalism with a sense of ethics

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darkprince45 posted...

This is a shit take. You guys have some crazy delusional rambling about capitalism. Whats wrong with yall. There are plenty of small businesses owned and operated by hard working people. Some people spent their life savings on it

oink oink

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Wahh fuck everyone else but me

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averagejoel posted...

I'm not painting them at all, and you're the first one to mention Delis and Barbershops

... what the fuck is a small business to you?

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averagejoel posted...

no one is saying that they're bad though. I don't care about "bad." "bad" is even more vague than "small business." I'm saying that they're exploitative, which is an objective description of the way they function

i gotta say the gimmick you've settled on seems to be really effective
"i am clearly a paragon of indifference but i do believe we should use accurate words and terms and i am the only gatekeeper of accuracy so let me tell you what is accurate and what is not and YOU will decide whether it is bad"

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teepan95 posted...

Businesses in the US are shitty. That doesn't mean businesses the world over are shitty

Capitalism with a sense of ethics, enforceable by law if necessary, can and already does work.

again, I don't care about "shitty." "shitty" is only slightly less vague than "bad." it's meaningless. factually, they are exploitative.

doesn't matter if there's a "sense of ethics." businesses are still inherently exploitative. capitalism is still inherently exploitative.

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Happy_Tristesse posted...

... what the fuck is a small business to you?

if you had read my first post before responding, you would know

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Me too. Small business can be the ones that treat their employees the worst because there's no attempt at scrutiny or things like hr and unions. More likely to pay under the table and not pay minimum wage.

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Agree op

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darkprince45 posted...

Wahh fuck everyone else but me

Big surprise that the guy who is literally paid to defend capital is defending capital lmao

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so small businesses are evil/exploitative
big business are clearly evil/exploitative

are medium businesses okay?

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I have my own opinions about small businesses but now is not the time to be shitting on them.

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The Trent posted...

so small businesses are evil/exploitative
big business are clearly evil/exploitative

are medium businesses okay?

He already said business is a problem conceptually

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The Trent posted...

so small businesses are evil/exploitative
big business are clearly evil/exploitative

are medium businesses okay?

Nope only daddy Marx is okay

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so business should be abolished

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BathroomWater posted...

Big surprise that the guy who is literally paid to defend capital is defending capital lmao

Big surprise, the comfy white suburbanites Telling people to fuck off. If only you grew up in Chicago and realized how much pride shop owners have in their small business their staples of our community
So much, that the local gangbangers are helping
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=dD1DB3-e798

you guys think you are the gatekeepers of whats right. But in reality, so many people here are pathetic and disgusting. When it comes to your house, you will be the first to change to your post

low karma alt. Whose main are you that got warned or suspended

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The Trent posted...

so business should be abolished

Damn I do get why Tc says talking to people like this guy is like talking to a wall

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i'm just not as smart as you guys jeez you don't have to be mean to me

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The Trent posted...

i'm just not as smart as you guys jeez you don't have to be mean to me

Yeah listen to John Doe and his genderstudies degree and overthrow the entire system. They know it better!

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Conflict posted...

Joel reminds me of GSYBE

He's just one of those posters that everyone on both the left and right can agree is totally off his rocker

Gsybe was pretty cool before he started leaning into the Hilary stuff imo. Used to talk about football a good bit.

Landlords are evil, small family businesses are evil, big businesses are evil, and the government is evil. Do these people think everyone in the world will just move into millions of tiny, self-sufficient hippie communes or something?

Dude I get your frustration and where you're coming from. The narrative has been shifted over to small businesses, and it needs to go back to the real issue of police brutality and authoritarianism.

This does not make the grievances of small businesses invalid. Confirmation bias does you no favors. There's a liquor store by my complex owned by a family and prolly friends, immigrants. Every day they provide food to the homeless. If their store was destroyed in a riot, are they still some evil robber barons or is their suffering valid?

Fucking acknowledge the grievances of the people and move on. Being sociopathic about it does us no favors. Get better at changing the narrative back.

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Happy_Tristesse posted...

Dude I get your frustration and where you're coming from. The narrative has been shifted over to small businesses, and it needs to go back to the real issue of police brutality and authoritarianism.

Who would have thought that almost a week of riots and destroying shit will change the narrative

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