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I support this walkout. As a small business owner all I've been able to do was purge my FB page profiles. I'm proud of them for taking a bigger step than I'm a
by edoceo 6y ago
I support this walkout. As a small business owner all I've been able to do was purge my FB page profiles. I'm proud of them for taking a bigger step than I'm able to make.
Working people of all countries unite. Seize the means of production!
- buboard 6y agothey are not interested in the means of production, they just want the salary
- edoceo 6y agoAnd the health care, and 401k, and vacation time, and training (all of which we provide)
- klipt 6y ago> Seize the means of production! Many employers give away the means of production via RSUs, and the standard advice is to sell them and buy index funds so that you're diversified across multiple means of production. Don't know if Marx would approve, but it seems clearly better to me that Microsoft workers can own some Amazon and vice versa, so if one company goes down the workers don't end up losing everything (as they would if they only owned the company they work for).
- MattGaiser 6y ago> Seize the means of production! You realize that means your business too?
- edoceo 6y agoObviously and eventually. Shipmate before self and all.
- luckylion 6y ago> Obviously and eventually. "But please seize my business last"?
- edoceo 6y agoMarx makes a difference between the tradesman who has a small business employing other tradesmen and the oligarch who's salary is 300% greater than the workforce average. You know that Marx isn't against all business right? It's the extreme inequality that's the problem. So, like most small business owners we'd be seized well after the 1% (and even the 5%).
- remarkEon 6y agoMarx did make a (big) difference here ... unfortunately for the tradesman, no one gave a shit.
- Kiro 6y agoYou're not just sacrificing your business. If what you wish for would happen you would be placed in front of an execution squad.
- edoceo 6y agoFalse. Not all business owners are bourgeoisie against which the communist proletarians struggle. In the USA for example most businesses are owned by other proletarians.
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- Kiro 6y agoEveryone will say they supported the revolution when standing in front of a firing squad.
- 0xy 6y agoThis action only harms your business. You lose business, reach and free advertising. Facebook loses nothing.
- edoceo 6y agoMaybe. My target market leans towards equitable application of justice and frankly, action from FB not that meaningful. My efforts are small, I've only removed one microscopic cog from the Great Machine. I felt my other choice was "status quo". I found it unacceptable to do nothing.