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
From what it seems, small businesses get weaker and weaker every recession, from 50% to around 40% of gdp in 2 decades, and coincidentally the left is growing more popular. i think this could be related somehow
I've been treated way worse by large scale apartment complexes than small landlords. But i've also been treated bad by small landlords.
I've had a mom&pop landlord charge me cleaning fees for trash the other 3 roommates + one dead roommate left behind since I was the last one there. I've had corporate landlords require me to mail my check 4 blocks over rather than take it in the office, or be charged a 50 dollar fee to pay online, then try to raise the rent almost 300 bucks to renew. while the window leaked like a sieve every time it rained with no promise of being fixed. I've had corporate slumlords reduce trash pickup which drove mice into every apartment.
I've had a landlord who just rented his moms old house to college students at like 1800/mo for 3 bedroom house with a giant basement with a bar. He'd take cash payments at his house so all 6 of us could just throw money in a pile. He'd then talk to me like a human, show me this weird small hover craft he pulled out of the woods to restore, and was generally an alright dude. We hid a cat from him and he "believed" us when we said we were watching him, and barely caused a fuss when the basement reeked of weed when he was showing the place. some people in the house made things harder for him but he was a pretty honest dude.
I currently have a property manager interface for a private owner and I think she's just a little simple and over stretched. They only raised the rent 50 bucks this year after rent being stagnant for like 3 years.
I hate landlords but my experience has been mixed. Nationalize all large corporate apartment complexes. Only allow small landlords to rent out 1 property max that they inherited or moved out from and enforce rent control measures on everything.
send landlords to the wall on a case by case basis is what i'm saying.
Nationalize all large corporate apartment complexes. Only allow small landlords to rent out 1 property max that they inherited or moved out from and enforce rent control measures on everything.
liberal. kill literally every single landlord, no questions asked
I dunno they're getting destroyed pretty fucking quickly these days. At this rate, everything will just be run by Walmart and Amazon by the end of the year.
What about people who's kids moved out of the house that are now renting out rooms?
I guess they're fine, I'm more thinking of people with 1-5 rental properties who will lose them due to their eviction fetishes
