Faceless, mechanized, dehumanizing profit maximization, or the personal, in-your-face viciousness of a petty tyrant lording over a fief. Tough choice.
Small business owners are tricky because maybe you open up a pizza place because you genuinely love the craft of making pizza and want to become an integral part of your neighborhood, or maybe you open up a pizza place because you want to see your name on a big sign.
It’s calculated, efficient, clearly motivated evil verses narcissistic, deranged, inconsistent evil.
The reason the latter often feels preferable is it’s a devil you can understand. I can analysis the haute-bourgeois and predict their actions with some accuracy, makes them easier to organize against. For all I know my local petty-bourgeois is one citation for improper sewage dumping away from driving an armored bulldozer through my house.
I think about this story often:
They called the cops on a disabled guy for playing the trumpet outside their store in the middle of the music district.
I just checked and yelp covered up all the negative reviews the bookstore received after that lol
I’ve mentioned this before but there was a dude busking on a horn years ago outside where I worked and the amount of people that were like “if he put as much energy into finding a job as he did playing that trumpet…” almost made me snap.
He’s making music, it’s free music, and he’s fucking good at it you ungrateful motherfuckers. This is his fucking job and he’s doing a great job. I was so goddamn mad.
As I’ve explained to my co-workers in restaurants before, they’re no better morally than any other business owners they’re just too egotistical or stupid to just follow the easy money and open a franchise, which makes them more unpredictable and dangerous.
Like you think they wouldn’t own large businesses if they could? That remaining small is their goal? Fuck no, your mom and pop store’s dream would be to be Wal Mart. They’re the capitalists coming near last place and don’t deserve your pity any more than another richer capitalist. The exploitation is the same and it’s harder to organize against a business where the owner is there every day.
Absolutely. A coworker today relayed their cousins path from coin op carwash owner, to PPP loan multiple car wash owner, to PPP loan apartment owner. Dude’s still actively seeking to acquire more.
Well yeah because you never meet the shareholders of large corps, theyve delegated the nasty stuff to managers and such.
If I hear one more person talk about “ma and pop landlords” as inherently good against some big landlord corporation homie oh my god
