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‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape
(www.theguardian.com)
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I thought we elected a communist? Why are the petite bourgeoisie cheering? 👺 /hj
What does /hj stand for? Handjob?
Half joking, in this case at least.
I think I prefer the hand job
I vote that that is what it stands for now too
I'm willing to compromise and get a hand job from a serious clown.
I want one too! Is there a line?
It's more of a circle than a line
It is being given by a sad comedian.
Probably the only time this phrase will be uttered.
If you gotta ask, you can't afford it
I can afford it, I just want to know what I'm getting.
Grocery store owners and barber shops? Independent restaurants? Wtf are you talking about? These businesses barely stay afloat in NYC. Same class but they sign a few paychecks. Save the half disdain for their vendors and giant competitors squeezing them out and killing fair competition in the market.
I mean, small businesses are petite bourgeoisie. That's just the definition of the term. That doesn't mean they are an enemy of socialism and I don't think that's what the person you're replying to was saying. Of course it would be ideal for small businesses to adopt a cooperative structure but it would be foolish to suddenly try and push that on existing small business owners. In the meantime it's good to change policy to favor small business over corporations because it distributes wealth more evenly, enables greater social mobility, and fosters community.
In fact they are specifically called out in marxist theory as a "swing" class that can go either way as they share some attributes with workers and some with capitalists.
And I'm saying the 99% has been so compressed, those small business owners live like proletariat.
whooosh.