#or will bootlickers keep them afloat

[clowningaroundmars]

you can tell disney is STRUGGLING lately

offering subscriptions of disney+ for like 3 bucks

hiring remote data entry positions for like 18 bucks an hour, emphasizing that anyone can apply (ads i see on yt nowadays)

tons of ppl making "disney fucking sucks and heres how its impacting their revenue" videos

yeah.

[little-miss-mash]

Leonard I’m gonna have a moment please bear with me Uggggh not to be a boss bootlicker but we cannot give workers the entire profit because of fucking overhead costs AND most owners I know might suck but they work thier ASSES off

Rent, permits, digital systems, collateral like pizza boxes, the price of pizza ingredients. And then you have the boss’s wage. Now workers SHOULD be paid more but 9/10 small business bosses that I’ve worked for are working double full time jobs keeping the place afloat. Were some of them assholes? Yeah. But being a business owner absolutely fucking sucks and I worked in a tourist town for most of those jobs and with the insane rent none of them even MADE much of a profit.

(The real demon once again is landlords here I’d like to point out)

Small businesses like this aren’t like white collar companies. The bosses aren’t walking away with massive bonuses and a salary 800% bigger than the bottom employee. We’ve all had a boss that does nothing but that’s only been the case (in my experience) in corporate owned chains. (Not even franchises which are MOST business you recognize).

We’ve got to radicalize how our system works and workers should get paid more handsomely but let’s have some economic literacy about the realities of small business ownership. The key to our salvation isn’t “give all the profits to the workers” its pay them a thriving wage but have the government OUTSIDE of work provide universal housing, healthcare, food stamps, and other staples of living so that no one is dependent on a shitty minimum wage job.

Stuff like this radicalizes me. How is this the best system we have?

[fslut]

Hi yes hello while we should give our money to independent LGBT content creators during pride, someone buying some trans pride shirt from vans or whatever isn't gonna single handedly keep capitalism afloat, someone smiling at the magnum ice cream lesbian wedding does not make them a bootlicker

[zucca101]

Can't have people being paid what they're worth after all, can we? As we all know, keeping those plebs at work is far more important than making sure they can keep a roof over their head! Corporate bootlicker.

I understand if all you think of is in terms of childish tropes and fiction, but here in reality, the small and mid-sized businesses are things that actually exist.

Do you think that Mrs. Jean can afford to pay you $20 an hour to pump gas or flip burgers at the local cafe?

Do you think that Mr. Sheldon can afford to pay your dentist bills, optometry bill AND every doctor’s appointment you make from the funds drawn from the car wash?

Do you think that Mrs. Olga can pay your auto insurance tab with the money she brings in from her quilting business in return for your watching the register?

Do you think any of them can do that AND keep their business afloat?

I’m not trying to egg you on or anything either here. These are legit questions.

Because if you do think that, then you understand nothing about small business.

Let me put this as clearly as possible for you...

When you pass laws that require businesses to have difficult payment requirements, guess what businesses will be the only ones to survive?

The giant corporations that nobody likes.

Because they can afford to take that hit.

Whereas Main Street will close down.