Big business bad to many people but it’s the point of the USA. I disagree with it. But that’s the point of free market capitalism to the exception of anything else, Murica. Insert eagle (red tailed hawk) screech here.
Many countries decide to incentivize smaller stores and punish chain stores. We call this socialism. The US decides to punish small stores with rules that make no sense for a 200sqft store while giving away billions in tax cuts, sorry “incentives”, to big stores.
Instead of taking less from those you want to succeed, the US takes more from the individual to give to the big store.
This is an important distinction because big box stores in places that aren’t the USA actually have a disadvantage. And their prices are not much lower if at all, relying solely on economies of scale. You can then choose to shop in one which if we’re honest has convenience. Open 24 hours a day, get 7 items that have no logistical correlation, get a brand name item that the local store doesn’t have, etc. And you don’t feel like you’re exploiting people at the same time.
I now do almost all of my day to day shopping in small shops. The rest, bigger purchases or weird items, are big online people or online scooter delivery from a mom and pop store but over an app that takes a 5% cut, so I put it in the same category.
Big business bad to many people but it’s the point of the USA. I disagree with it. But that’s the point of free market capitalism to the exception of anything else, Murica. Insert eagle (red tailed hawk) screech here.
The US has a long and storied history of busting up monopolies and taxing the ultra-wealthy upwards of 90%. You’ve bought into a fictional re-telling of American history; yes there are robber-barons, but there is also unionization. Yes, there are megacorps, but there are also trust-busters. The United States has never been a free-market, but it is popular for reactionaries to claim that it is or should be.
Many countries decide to incentivize smaller stores and punish chain stores. We call this socialism.
That’s an oxymoron. Capitalism is a belief system where amassing a dragon’s hoard of wealth by any means possible is seen as virtuous rather than a sign of a severely damaged psyche.
If the market is free, rather than rigged in your favor, you’ll be able to amass a goblin’s hoard at most, unless you’re the heir of another goblin.
I don’t disagree. I left the failing shithole of the USA. People on Lemming are too stupid to read and comprehend most of the time.
Americans argue for free market. Then go shocked pikachu when it bites them in the ass. Americans call socialism evil. Then not know what socialism is. Americans call rigging the markets evil. Then introduce nationalistic tarrifs and import controls.
Big business bad to many people but it’s the point of the USA. I disagree with it. But that’s the point of free market capitalism to the exception of anything else, Murica. Insert eagle (red tailed hawk) screech here.
Many countries decide to incentivize smaller stores and punish chain stores. We call this socialism. The US decides to punish small stores with rules that make no sense for a 200sqft store while giving away billions in tax cuts, sorry “incentives”, to big stores.
Instead of taking less from those you want to succeed, the US takes more from the individual to give to the big store.
This is an important distinction because big box stores in places that aren’t the USA actually have a disadvantage. And their prices are not much lower if at all, relying solely on economies of scale. You can then choose to shop in one which if we’re honest has convenience. Open 24 hours a day, get 7 items that have no logistical correlation, get a brand name item that the local store doesn’t have, etc. And you don’t feel like you’re exploiting people at the same time.
I now do almost all of my day to day shopping in small shops. The rest, bigger purchases or weird items, are big online people or online scooter delivery from a mom and pop store but over an app that takes a 5% cut, so I put it in the same category.
The US has a long and storied history of busting up monopolies and taxing the ultra-wealthy upwards of 90%. You’ve bought into a fictional re-telling of American history; yes there are robber-barons, but there is also unionization. Yes, there are megacorps, but there are also trust-busters. The United States has never been a free-market, but it is popular for reactionaries to claim that it is or should be.
This is absolutely not socialism.
That’s an oxymoron. Capitalism is a belief system where amassing a dragon’s hoard of wealth by any means possible is seen as virtuous rather than a sign of a severely damaged psyche.
If the market is free, rather than rigged in your favor, you’ll be able to amass a goblin’s hoard at most, unless you’re the heir of another goblin.
I don’t disagree. I left the failing shithole of the USA. People on Lemming are too stupid to read and comprehend most of the time.
Americans argue for free market. Then go shocked pikachu when it bites them in the ass. Americans call socialism evil. Then not know what socialism is. Americans call rigging the markets evil. Then introduce nationalistic tarrifs and import controls.