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basically it's your small businesses that have a business model based on not being able to give their staff decent wages and conditions that can fuck off

this doesn't seem to have anything to do w small businesses as they really exist Seriously? I have heard the kinds of shit-heads I'm bitching about rant about the minimum wage many times. U really positing that this is some kind of straw man fiction?

the thing is that in general the small-business is lionized but in terms of workers welfare they're more likely, by virtue of their size, to be worse places to work than larger organizations in the following ways:

more likely to have lower wages, less likely to offer good benefits packages, less likely to be unionized, and less likely to have established procedures for dealing with workplace bullying and harassment (and in the U.S. at least small businesses are exempt from many labor code protections),

Also when small businesses are praised for being "job creators" it's key to remember they're also job killers.

Lots of restaurants (just to take one category) open, thrive, and close within the space of a year or two.

In one sense they created jobs, sure, but in another sense they destroyed as many as they created.

doesn’t necessarily make small business owners worse people. that is a failure of government

NB I’m sure there’s some survey showing SBOs are more likely to be republican or whatever in case fine

They are the wealth-makers, they are the dreamers of dreams

my controversial opinion that I actually believe is that if you’re going to defend small business owners from a #notall angle, you should be cool with people doing the same for white people, men, etc

I kind of like that people are notalling small business owners here. But it's also the part of my day (after lunch) I just give up all hope for humanity.

you should be cool with #notall anyway

I feel like I'm in crazy town, population y'all. Uh, go Big Corporate, I guess?

#notalllasagnas

#notallnaps

Like, when you're talking about the abuses and infractions shitty small business owners get away with, I think you're just referring to shitty business owners period.

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#notallpetitbourgeoise

... are Nazis but...

if you’re going to defend small business owners from a #notall angle, you should be cool with people doing the same for white people, men, etc

that is fine. i am sick of #notall being used to shut down discussion. if nuance is a bad thing and we should only aspire to generalizations then communication is only going to break down further and further into meaninglessness.

i'm all for it

breaking down into meaninglessness

♫ no more sleepy dreaming ♫

the reaction to #notallmen isn't about literally it being all men

I know what you're saying, but in practice it is close. don't @ me

nah

rude I said not to @ me

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my controp (if it even is) is that vancouver has become insanely progressive gone mad. No gas stations (maybe one), roads closed everywhere in my neighbourhood except for cyclists. It's a socialist nightmare.

Respect ur right to hold challops but that honestly sounds rad

Lol yeah I need to take it easy man

Surely the amount of gas stations is market driven rather than part of a municipal program

There's at least 4 gas stations within about a dozen blocks of my place here in Vancouver.

Actually more like 7 now I think about it.

can we rewind the track....eesh, dunno, i'm from the country, probably just trash iirc.

My province just elected Doug Ford's PCs to government. I'm not exactly sympathizing.

lol yeah I was already seriously pondering a move to Vancouver

rent/renovictions are fairly bad here tho

not sure how they are over there.

was in Vancouver in Decemeber and saw plenty of gas stations

i hate when they make granville pedestrian street fucking up all the bus routes

Simon if you move out here, drinks on me

Vancouver rents are pricey but affordable/better compared to la

Isn’t Vancouver like the most expensive city in North America right now

Big fat no

I rent in LA right now and looking for a place in Vancouver so ya

rent is still way cheaper than bay area

comparable to toronto

Way cheaper than the desirable American coastal cities but bad for household earnings vs average rent sort of thing.

There's also plenty gas stations (other than on the downtown peninsula where there are none)

Price of single family homes pretty crazy tho

The Boston rents I posted on the Cdn politics thread are way worse than Vancouver.

The Boston rents I posted on the Cdn politics thread are way worse than Vancouver.

Especially since you have to live in Boston.