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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/36883936
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Remember: Just because a business is small doesn’t mean it’s automatically better. For example, if Bezos ran a corner shop with only three employees, he’d still try and stop them from taking toilet breaks.
There have been many studies showing that money changes people, specifically affecting empathy and pro-social behavior. I’m having trouble finding non-paywalled papers atm but this article seems like a decent overview: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_money_changes_the_way_you_think_and_feel
Jeff Bezos did at one time run a small business (Amazon started as an online bookshop operated from home). I’ve never heard of him doing evil shit like that back then.
I don’t believe anyone is born evil. Jeff Bezos became evil. And that probably could have been prevented if we just, like, had better tax laws.
Evil is largely circumstantial. If you somehow became a billionaire, you’d probably be evil too.
That said, yes, there are plenty of small business owners who are raging shitbags, too.
Robert Caro disagrees. Power does not corrupt, it reveals. If you somehow became a billionaire, you’d be able to do whatever you wanted, which means we’d be able to see what you wanted to do. If you start acting evil once you get money, it means you were evil but unable to act on it until you had money.
Specifically about Amazon, Bezos made it because he wanted to cash in on the early internet with his own startup, leaving a Wall Street firm to do so. And, yes, we was a dick to his only employee, which is why the man quit after only 5 years.
- Not about programming.
- There are 4 top level comments, all casting small business owners negatively.
The fediverse is as artificially manipulated as reddit.
I think fediverse is just full of retards rather than manipulated tbh
It’s certainly annoying and difficult to disagree, but it’s the “trendy new thing”. It’ll disappear in it’s current state then become something new. Whether for or against, I feel that it’s going to improve beyond the detectable stage soon, and what comes then is the conversation I feel is inevitable.
TLDR: It’s everywhere because it’s a trend, there will be pushback, then the tech will move into a new phase. What is the next phase?
No it’s not a trend but the tools will get better to the point where people won’t notice. Truth is design is expensive and difficult for many small businesses - so having all that for free is a great deal
It’s not like they even have to break the bank to do better. Simplicity and low production value looks can make ads stick out more now than ever.
Related tweet: https://bsky.app/profile/komaniecki.bsky.social/post/3mtgzfnapbc2q
They have to reduce cost to stay competitive. I can relate tho. Because some people who decide these things are blind for how AI-y their shit looks and that it screams incredibly low quality/seriousness/professionality/legitimacy and low effort/dedication.
Also:
local business ->
just a franchise store <-Business owners are (generally) not your allies in the class war, no matter how small or large their business is.
So running a craft studio and selling your art direct to people in your area makes you a class traitor now?
Man, I’m having trouble keeping up with who we’re supposed to hate guys.
No. Owning a business (as in, means of production) makes you a different class — bourgeois — not a class traitor. Belonging to a different class naturally changes what benefits you.
You hit a false dichotomy. “Not your allies” does not automatically mean “class traitors”. They might be neutral.
i think this ignores the material demographic reality that whereas when that quote was said most of the world was the proletariat, now most of the world is middle class (at least, the world that Lemmy users live in)
Best to just give it all to the same billionaire, then.
