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that dichotomy isn't helpful. most of us (bottom 80-90% or so), small businesses (~<$10MM in revenue, low-growth), startups (small-ish but high-growth, negative
by clairity 7y ago
that dichotomy isn't helpful. most of us (bottom 80-90% or so), small businesses (~<$10MM in revenue, low-growth), startups (small-ish but high-growth, negative cash-flow businesses) and the like need leeway to take risks. fault or not, it's reasonable to band together to try to keep these consituents, society, culture and way of life afloat through economic arrest.
the wealthy, large businesses and transnational corporations like to play by ruthless financial rules (particularly against the less powerful) and should be allowed to die by those same rules (or at least sacrifice significantly in exchange for help).
- aaomidi 7y agoI honestly don't care about small businesses. You want my empathy? Create a co-op.
- jaycroft 7y agoI've removed my original reply as it was posted out of a place of incredulous anger.
- umanwizard 7y agoYou may not care about the businesses, but do you care about the people who work for them? Do you care about what they produce? How is the economy going to continue to work when a huge fraction of the workforce is unemployed and a large chunk of production has stopped?
- aaomidi 7y agoMaybe it's the push we need. Workers should own the means of production.
- msftthrowy200 7y agoTo hear this from somebody who works for Microsoft of all companies. It's too good to be real.
- aaomidi 7y agoYou understand that participating in this system is a necessity for survival. The fact that I HAVE to participate in it to live is why I'm also speaking out against it. But sure, irony or whatever.
- gamblor956 7y agoAt most small businesses, owners work alongside their employees.
- aaomidi 7y agoThen they would have no problem making it a coop.