• p_sharikov [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The risk is that they might have to get a job too if they lose all their investments.

  • Teekeeus
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    25 days ago

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  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    When Bob decided to extract his employees surplus labour, he shook hands with danger.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So investors take a risk? How many of them gets killed or injured at the job? How many of them had their bodies work down and destroyed by labour?

    • modfash [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I mean... most small business owners probably saved for years to start it.

      • culdrought [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        As always there is a :citations-needed: episode for this

        https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-111-how-small-business-rhetoric-is-used-to-protect-corporate-america-ba1e0cd9b8e3

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Small business owners are just the attempt by the bourgeoisie to facilitate the growth of a reactionary peasant class to put downward pressure on labor. They're nothing but a tool of oppression and are just as expendable as the average worker. When It comes down to it, it's always the big bourgeoisie on the first life boats, and they charge a fee for the rest.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    here's a risk: people with reasons to hate you are alone with all of your expensive means of production.

    • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It will never not be funny how many cameras and surveillance are everywhere at work, even though propaganda has been so successful people are enthusiastic to bend over backwards for their bosses, yet if you catch a boss committing wage theft, it's "tsk tsk, everyone is so cynical these days, mistrust everywhere."

  • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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    3 years ago

    They took the risk of getting guillotined, and you gotta respect them for that 😤

  • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Also, the implication here is that workers do not take any risks at all.

    • By getting a college degree (a near mandatory luxury these days), I "took on a risk", no one gives a fuck.
    • Blue-Collar workers that work dangerous jobs take on an even greater risk EVERY GODDAMN DAY, no one gives a fuck.

    Is it really a risk if I owe it to porky that he NEVER has to suffer the "risk" part of "taking on a risk"? Yet I'm left completely in the dark? Capitalism, the only game where if you're playing on tutorial mode and beat it, you're seen as a master of the game and therefore get cheat codes enabled.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "hey, I'm taking a risk putting your life into a slot machine, what if I lose some surplus value when you die?"