Post #871666
2026-03-24 10:13 UTC
Being local doesn’t magically make something good, though. Everything is local to somewhere.
My problem is with capitalism itself, not specifically American businesses or big businesses or whatever. Small business owners are a major part of the economy. If the small business owners aren’t feeling the pain of capitalism too, they do not have incentive to join the rest of the working class as part of a social revolution
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@jaaake@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 13:39
So do you grow your own food and harvest your own electricity and smelt you own ore to make your own electronic devices to post on the internet that you're accessing via your own isp? "Small business owners" feels like an arbitrary line. Sure, there's those that are doing it because they're bootlickers and capitalists, but restaurants are terrible investments. If you're avoiding chains and conglomerates, you're more likely to be supporting a comrade who is trying to survive in a capitalist country. This is not an ACAB situation. There are employee owned small businesses and work places that treat workers fairly.