• star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    The way Americans just uncritically worship small business owners is embarrassing.

    • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I wonder how much of it has to do with being a nation of slaveowners, who just yearn to own property that makes passive income and tell desperate people what to do with their lives.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I think that's a lot of it, but also Americans hate how their bosses have so much control over their lives. But we see the solution not as democracy in the workplace, but to become the boss ourselves.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          "When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor." —Paulo Freire

        • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          A nation of desperate people fighting for the chance to hold the whip, rather than build something where the whip is no longer necessary to wield