I dont think that Americans will ever destroy the petty bourgeois, the propaganda around small business is too ingrained in the culture. The capital B Bourgeois, on the other hand, love doing that. Thats why im a corporate-consolidation based accelerationist 😎
Don’t worry the US is also a corporate-consolidation based accelerationist.
Walmart already wiped out most of these small businesses. Now, everyone’s a small businesses owner for corporations, driving around delivering food, goods, and people.
Yeah its definetly already happening. I just hope conditions become ripe before the fascists become powerful enough to destroy all opposition
I don’t know how much more consolidation they can do. Sure att buys t mobile. Still not much different. The new wave is working for these corporations, but them telling you, you are small businesses owner so they can steal even more labor.
Now, this countries love of small business is exploited and used against them.
The lower end of the petit bougie getting wiped out and becoming proletarians is bad news for any future fascists. They do have the police force as ready made storm troopers though.
Proletarianization is different though when it's a bunch of atomized contractors driving Ubers and Grubhub and getting brand sponsorships and whatnot, rather than a group of people working together and realizing their shared interest
Yeah the expanding gig economy isn't helping. It is branded as a 'side-hustle' but it is designed to get rid of the concept of an employee all together. It is definitely part of the longer running move to contract work. Pay is stagnating and benefits disappear and cost of operation are pushed onto workers. This will force a backlash eventually, but maybe more like a peasant revolt instead of a workers movement? I can't predict where this new situation is going