• Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    Eh, I support my local record store. Lady’s just trying to sell good music at fair prices while paying her workers a good wage. I’d hardly call her Petty Bourgeois just because she’s trying to give my community a better option than Amazon for physical media; she’s barely making ends meet at that. Pretty sure I make more money than her just working a normal office job.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    104·
    20 hours ago

    Serious question, where are we supposed to buy things we need? But business is bad, small business is bad, what’s left?

    • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOPEnglish
      342·
      19 hours ago

      That isn’t what supporting small business means in this context. The support of small business is like when your politicians say things that they are the backbone of the country and they need tax breaks, more lenient regulation or subsidy. In the US they often subsidize small business owners like during COVID with PPP while letting their population suffer with no (or a one time) subsidy, no subsidized health care, no housing subsidy.

      It is realizing that business owners and entrepreneurs are not your friends, they are a class of people that exist to exploit your labor and you need to organize to over throw the economic system that benefits them over you. Communists are asking you to support your needs and the needs of people like you over the needs of people who exploit you.

      • Richard@lemmy.world
        117·
        18 hours ago

        No way in hell you never ever wanted to sell anything to anyone ever.

        Let’s say, sell your own art in the internet, or perhaps sell games to earn some cash.

        This is what i’m talking about, this is also creating your own business, a digital one but a business like all others.

        • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
          18·
          18 hours ago

          I legit have never wanted to sell anything. I don’t even like selling my time, but I gotta cause I don’t feel like living in the woods.

          • zarathustrad@lemmy.world
            12·
            17 hours ago

            Yea, you don’t want to sell your time to the oppressive woodlands. Forcing you to gather food and build shelter or die. That’s just like capitalism.

          • Richard@lemmy.world
            15·
            17 hours ago

            At the least flexible perspective, not really. But wanting to live off something you sell absolutely is.

        • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
          4·
          17 hours ago

          I’d honestly rather not sell that sort of thing. The only reason I would is so I could spend my working hours making that and still be able to afford to eat. If that wasn’t an issue, I’d rather give my work away for free.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      191·
      18 hours ago

      Unsurprisingly, I’m a communist. Collectivized production and distribution along a common, scientific plan is the way to go.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      101·
      15 hours ago

      Engineering spirit >>>> enterpreneurship spirit. I prefer to put all my energy into solving problems for the masses as the end goal, not maximize profit for the few as the end goal with solving problems almost as a side effect. Nothing suppresses engineering spirit more than enterpreneurship spirit. The amount of times complete, sustainable solutions get shot down by enterpreneurs in favour of partial, temporary solutions designed to manufacture dependency on the business is disgusting.