• CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Nothing stops them! except shitty wages that are not enough to pay your absurdly high bills for housing, utility and shitty food plus competition which does not treat their eorkers fair and is therefore much more profitable and can easily destroy your worker-friendly cooperative, which they totally will do because CAPITALISM

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        1 year ago

        You’re asking people with little to no resources to take on people who have all the resources.

        You don’t seem like you understand modern capitalism.

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          1 year ago

          People will donate a significant portion of their wages to ineffectual radical politicians but won’t bother to consolidate capital to support co-ops. That’s the actual system I see.

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            1 year ago

            What poor people do you think are donating wages to “radical politicians”? Have you ever met any poor people?

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          I do. I am not asking anyone to do anything. I am pointing out they are free to start their own business and compete if they think they can do better.

          Nobody thought Sears could be beat and now they’re mostly gone.

          Starbucks started with a small investment and now look at them.

          I think people want to make excuses for everything because they don’t want to take the risk or don’t know how to run a company. It’s easier than actually going out there and doing it. Running a company is hard work. It is a risk. I have done it several times. Never made an ass load of money but I left each one to the employees when I was done. Each one they ran right into the ground.

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        1 year ago

        Surprise, when there are obstacles standing in the way of your goals, people may mention those obstacles when asked about progress towards their goals. What an absolute flaccid take.