Small isn’t more just. Big systems of bureaucracy can’t shield us from injustice or discrimination but the risk averse nature of a bureaucracy means I’ll put my faith in a megacorp long before I trust an unknown small business
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I mean look: big corps will discriminate as much as they feel is profitable without exposing too much risk, and deniably. Many small business owners will act on their “sincerely held beliefs,” gosh darn the consequences, and hurt a lot more people proportionally
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The other place I've been hearing this critique is about landlords. Like other businesses it can be a mixed mag but the corporations at least have legal counsel that can prevent some of the worst abuses that can come from small scale landlords. Upkeep can be better too.
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Doesn’t matter where you live- small businesses are a craps shoot. The good ones are fine, but there’s no recourse to higher up when you work for a bad one.
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And hell, politics being good is no guarantee that they’re not an incredibly shitty employer. (When your therapist, your parents, and your roommates all say “screw finding another job, you need to quit now” that’s a bad sign.)
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cf. sarah taber's frequent rants on the landed gentry of middle america--the people who own the car dealerships, the strip malls, the franchise restaurants--being an absolute curse upon their communities, rich incompetents wielding political power to keep their counties poor
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they are also almost entirely trump supporters, go fucking figure
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