I worked at a gas station where the owner's nickname was "The Barron of [town]" because he owned so much land that most working people in the area were renting from him (had a few trailer parks with tenants he was incredibly racist to add well).
He was such a cheap fuck that he refused to pay for a scanner, so we had to memorize the price of everything in the store and input it manually (he didn't like price tags on some things because he thought they wouldn't sell as much).
He had 15 cameras in the store and would call constantly telling us to get back to work. Every year he bought a new sports car. He had 12 heart attacks and somehow survived them all thanks to his healthcare. He paid us $8/hr (this was 2015). Not even enough to rent from him, or finance a car from him. So he would reject is immediately if we needed housing or a car.
That job is why I'm a communist lol. That and the one before it where a bourgeois immigrant was my boss and basically had poor immigrant women who didn't speak English as slaves (they only got $7/hr for insane QA work like filing turbo housings into shape by the thousands).
I got $8/hr, and the first thing I had to do was strip copper wires out of the walls of the building he was renting. He told me "hard work will get you places, I started out doing work like this, then my dad left me his company, maybe one day that can happen to you!" without a hint of self awareness.
Edit: he was also aware that my father had killed himself the year prior and my family was destitute.
Whenever capitalists/libertarians talk about "protecting freedom", they're talking about those "small business owners" there. The ones that exploit with passion because they know that it's the only way to compete with an international bourgeoisie that's trying to suck up all the labor power. The freedom to abuse.
Small business kulaks. The ones around here that bitch about people not supporting local business are forcing their employees to risk death without giving them health insurance. No compassion no compassion zero fucking excuses from me.
They do it out of pure spite, not to compete with the bourgeoisie. Most of these type of people are too stupid to even be familiar with the concept. It's very basic "I'm the Big Man" type shit, which is why they all love Trump and hate "the Liberal Elite" - which is where they put all their frustrations about competing with global Capital onto yelling at teachers and college students.
They live in a bubble that shouldn't exist. Their class is tenuous at best. They are aware of this and blame the workers who they have nothing but hate for, and the few bourgeois institutions that they have to deal with (IRS, banks, taxes, etc.) Without any real knowledge of the reason they are allowed to exist. All they know is that treating workers poorly gets them more profits.
I worked at a gas station where the owner's nickname was "The Barron of [town]" because he owned so much land that most working people in the area were renting from him (had a few trailer parks with tenants he was incredibly racist to add well).
He was such a cheap fuck that he refused to pay for a scanner, so we had to memorize the price of everything in the store and input it manually (he didn't like price tags on some things because he thought they wouldn't sell as much).
He had 15 cameras in the store and would call constantly telling us to get back to work. Every year he bought a new sports car. He had 12 heart attacks and somehow survived them all thanks to his healthcare. He paid us $8/hr (this was 2015). Not even enough to rent from him, or finance a car from him. So he would reject is immediately if we needed housing or a car.
That job is why I'm a communist lol. That and the one before it where a bourgeois immigrant was my boss and basically had poor immigrant women who didn't speak English as slaves (they only got $7/hr for insane QA work like filing turbo housings into shape by the thousands).
I got $8/hr, and the first thing I had to do was strip copper wires out of the walls of the building he was renting. He told me "hard work will get you places, I started out doing work like this, then my dad left me his company, maybe one day that can happen to you!" without a hint of self awareness.
Edit: he was also aware that my father had killed himself the year prior and my family was destitute.
christ almighty
Whenever capitalists/libertarians talk about "protecting freedom", they're talking about those "small business owners" there. The ones that exploit with passion because they know that it's the only way to compete with an international bourgeoisie that's trying to suck up all the labor power. The freedom to abuse.
Small business kulaks. The ones around here that bitch about people not supporting local business are forcing their employees to risk death without giving them health insurance. No compassion no compassion zero fucking excuses from me.
land of the free means being ruled by a thousand petty tyrants
Oftentimes the words "freedom" and "democracy" are code words for oligarchy.
They do it out of pure spite, not to compete with the bourgeoisie. Most of these type of people are too stupid to even be familiar with the concept. It's very basic "I'm the Big Man" type shit, which is why they all love Trump and hate "the Liberal Elite" - which is where they put all their frustrations about competing with global Capital onto yelling at teachers and college students.
They live in a bubble that shouldn't exist. Their class is tenuous at best. They are aware of this and blame the workers who they have nothing but hate for, and the few bourgeois institutions that they have to deal with (IRS, banks, taxes, etc.) Without any real knowledge of the reason they are allowed to exist. All they know is that treating workers poorly gets them more profits.
They don't know any of that shit. It's pure domination and petty cruelty. They don't "blame" the workers, they bully them like any other shitty bully.
it's just so confusing why kids don't believe in the american dream anymore