:yea

  • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    “Today’s decision is welcome relief for America’s small businesses, who are still trying to get their business back on track since the beginning of the pandemic,” said Karen Harned, executive director of NFIB’s Small Business Legal Center.

    Love living in such a hollowed out country that the health of inanimate small businesses is placed above the real people that have to work or shop there.

    • bananon [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is also just pure ideology :zizek-joy:. No vaccines means your employees get Covid and you have to close. I cannot think of any situation where making your employees get Covid and die makes a small business owner more money.

      • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You mean capitalism is so short sighted that they will actively kill people in the pursuit of immediate profit? As leftists, we're all stuck with a Cassandra curse.

        • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Half the experience of leftism is being right the vast majority of the time, and having people act like you're a dumbass anyway.

      • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        You're assuming a small business owner gives a shit about their employees in any way. They still think there's going to be a line of hungry applicants out the door for a 29 hr/week minimum wage job opening.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Am I stupid? Why would vaccine mandates even hurt small businesses? Less :le-pol-face:s to hire?

      • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        From the article:

        The OSHA rule required employers with 100 or more workers to make them get vaccinated or be tested regularly, potentially at their own expense.

        If the "their" in the highlighted part is referring to the businesses (and not the employees), the only reason I can see is that they'd potentially have to pay for testing. So that their employees and fucking customers don't die during a pandemic.

        :joker-shopping:

      • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        It would require them to verify the vaccination status of their workers and refuse them work if they had not been tested or vaccinated, which would probably take a sliver from the labor pool. Most likely it's just an opposition to the government imposing any requirements on the capitalists though,

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah that's basically what I thought, but it's such shallow idealism to make this vaccine mandate yet another obviously good thing that can't be allowed to happen because it's akshually very nuanced and there's good people on both sides. Who cares if small businesses can't hire walking biological weapons? I thought neoliberals have always sustained that some amount of unemployment is a good thing?

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            unemployment is good because it means more people competing for jobs. This reduces the people actually competing for jobs so it could slightly increase wages.