You know what I love?
Reminding people that the majority of wage theft is committed by “small, local” businesses and that their idealizing of small businesses is stupid
All my worst bosses have been small business owners — the problem isn’t the size of the business, it’s that the relationship is exploitative. When someone decides to be a capitalist, making money through their investments rather than through their labour, their position relative to changes in the city becomes fundamentally different. Gentrification, as an example: when rents go up, it means they make more money (rather than lose their home); when prices go up and rich people move in, it means a chance to sell luxury goods (while we work for minimum wage); when more police and surveillance come in, it secures your investment (while we get harassed and pushed out). They are getting rich because our lives are getting worse.- Ungovernables and Yuppie Tears: A Saturday Night on Locke Street
(via unseelie)