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What a dogshit ass take. Small business owners are hardly "selling their humanity to be a owning-class pig". Most people just try to get by in the system they're born into. Many small businesses aren't beholden to some franchise and are pivotal to bringing their small community together.
Like, what fucking system do you live in were you don't work and only provide for those around you? Are you farming your own produce to disperse among your community or do you work some bullshit ass job like the rest of the world so you can virtue signal on Lemmy to feel better about your situation? My bet is on the latter.
Get fucking real.
What utter horseshit.
Their choice to become part of the system that is actively oppressing people just to save their own skin is so lacking in solidarity.
Find your class consciousness and stop making excuses for people who exploit others.
I don't care if that the system we all live in, the goal is to change that fucking system and break it, not give up and become part of it.
Also, yes, I do run a community garden and, yes, all of its produce I give away for free, no questions asked. Thanks for asking. It's called "mutual aid". You should look into it.
Lastly, those of us who work for a living are not the same as those who own the businesses that exploit our needs for profit, small business or otherwise. They are not pivotal to the community. What is pivotal are things like mutual aid programs and direct action initiatives that help people without profiting off of them.
Small business owners are not just fucking McDonalds franchises. Some are cafe owners, boardgame store owners, IT companies. These are not slave labor organizations but small teams of people working together in a system that demands capital to survive. They're absolutely pivotal because they often can provide services at better rates for their community, or are social hubs without needing to spend capital. They absolutely are pivotal because they can teach people trades while earning for a living. They absolutely are pivotal because they're not greedy corpos trying to extract every ounce of capital from their community, they're most regular ass people looking to just get by. They usually provide fair wages to their small teams so they can also survive. They provide direct alternatives to buying from big box corporations or ordering off Amazon, Temu, or whatever bullshit online megastore. Some source their product organically and some wholesale.
Do you not go to social gathers like boardgame groups or outings? Do you not travel at all? Your worldview is extremely narrow.
I never said they were just McDonald's franchises. I know they are also cafe owners and petite bourgeois leeches of the sort.
I give zero fucks. If you're a business owner who sees to profit off of your community: go fuck yourself you utter parasite.
All profit is theft. Period.
"People need to earn a living" is capitalist realism Bullshit. People only need to earn a living because the owning class forces the need to pay for what rightfully belongs to the community. If people stopped forcing that need and refused to exploit their community for profit, instead organizing to provide for each other freely and reading, then people wouldn't need to "earn a living" and can still pursue their passions to learn a trade or gain education.
And if it is a place if business that seeks profit there is always an obligation to spend money (not capital, capital is property, not currency). There isn't a business out there that lets people loiter without paying.
Small business owners are just as greedy and slimy as corporate entities.
And like fuck they provide fair wage.s small businesses are the absolute worst offenders of wage theft out there. Most of them make excuses after excuses to pay less because "oh we're a small business and can't afford it". Your high as fuck if you think small businesses pay fairly.
Stop glazing the petite bourgeois. Go support your local co-op and non-profit instead.