Oh, I mean they definitely can exist, but they're just a way of organizing a business, not protecting wages/income. They may or may not be efficient in that regard, but it's not like collective bargaining.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
I don’t think efficiency is important either. Ultimately this comes down to breaking the system itself rather than keeping up half measures which regularly are hijacked by capitalists.
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Replying to @ladyattis @arthur_affect
Efficiency is important if it's your bottom line! Especially for a professional business like a salon, that's really just a general partnership as much as a worker collective. Call it whatever you want, but they want to make the most money.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
What if I told you if you got enough and you’re satisfied with what you got that efficiency doesn’t factor into that?
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I’m not trying to be snarky but that’s just how I see it. A cooperative doesn’t have to follow norms of a capitalist firm.
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Replying to @ladyattis @mssilverstein
Until they have to compete with another business in the same field for dollars from customers who don't give a shit about their ideals and just want the lowest prices for the best service
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Your logic seems to be “well capitalists exist so we have to do as they do and use the state to do half ass measures which they can readily roll back with lobbyists next election”
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My logic is fuck the capitalists, steal their shit, and if they try to lock you up fucking smash their heads in. Sorry if I don’t support incrementalism.
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Replying to @ladyattis @arthur_affect
Aren't we talking about barbershops here? Whose heads are you smashing?
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Yeah I mean honestly I find this very annoying Telling some midlist fantasy author "Why are you still trying to make money under an exploitative capitalist system? Why not SMASH PRIVATE PROPERTY ALTOGETHER" Okay are you gonna smash my landlord and the owner of my grocery store
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Cause, like, smashing those is pretty hard And smashing *intellectual* property is many many times easier and can be done in your underwear from your laptop So, in practice, it's just the author's property that gets smashed
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