The first small business owner I worked for got busted for human trafficking because one of his slaves died on the job. He was able to somehow maintain not only his business but also was able to go free without any consequences. I got out of there very quickly. From then on I internally scream whenever people start worshiping small businesses.
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Fine I'll support big businesses
Fucking liberals can't even imagine a world where the workers seize the means of production lol
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Many of the liberals below clearly don't know any small business owners. Petty tyrants can be just as personally vicious as larger capitalists, and both live via theft of labor time.
Many of them also use their children / family as unpaid workers, who they would be happy to throw out of a home for not fulfilling their duties.
Petty tyrants can be just as personally vicious as larger capitalists, and both live via theft of labor time.
if i had a dollar for every time a small business owner took offense because my autism made them feel like i was an asshole to them and then fired me while trying to take the software that i developed for them, it would be able to buy myself a couple beers and think about how i could avoid them. :p
Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois
That's right I'm posting Trotsky on .ml
My city allows small business owners to have lower minimum wages and less benefits offered than big corporations.
Small business owners are the absolute worst. I worked for a few in my youth and they feel so entitled to exploit labour and get legit mad when they can't?
I took one guy to the labour board for unpaid wages, not even run-of-the-mill exploitation, and I thought he was going to get violent in the mediation 😬
I had one get a $12M bonus for the three stores they owned while telling me they can’t afford a raise or full time because things are tight for everyone
Then left the check on the desk after doing an e-deposit or whatever - then leaving for the day at 12:30
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Did you win? Sounds like you probably did if he got so 
about it. On the other hand, just because one of them throws a hissy fit at the drop of a hat or gets physically threatening doesn't mean they failed to get their way.
I knew and had to spend a lot of time with a former small business owner who lost her ~100 employee business and ended up living the worst nightmare of any capitalist: being a wage worker. Having to exist on the other side of the class divide and get exploited rather than do the exploitation went a long way in humbling her I think, though it happened a decade before I met her. But she still remained one of the most petulant people, totally unable to admit to having any fault or being wrong in any way and was always just so childish for the most asinine reasons. (Though to be fair I've also known life long proles with similar issues).
Small business owners really do put the "petty" in the term petty bourgeoisie.
I did win, lol. There wasn't much question that I would win - his argument was that I didn't give notice so he didn't need to give me my last pay cheque 🤷♀️
Unsuccessful capitalists are still capitalists and still need to be smashed. 🏴
And they're absolutely the worst. Not only are they constantly in a panicked state at the looming threat of being thrown back into the labor pool, all the tepid labor reforms the big companies sort of have to abide by don't apply to them.
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Let the small businesses follow the rules of their dearest 'freemarket'. Why should I interfere in the proletarianization of the petite bourgeoisie?
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