There is no small businesses that can
Ship
Return Policy
Warrenty
Next Day Shipping
etc etc etc

The way amazon does.

They can if they serve regionally.

Sounds good to me. Spending money all day would be tiring. It's easy to sit around hungry.

If people earn their wealth through legal means, so be it. I think immense wealth carries with it the high likelihood of losing your soul but I don't support the government pillaging these people because they managed to create companies that were successful.

That said, the rich should pay more in taxes, not because they did something wrong, but because we live in a society that should provide more support and opportunities to families and lower income people. That makes for a more sustainable economy and society going forward, which benefits everybody(including the rich).

This post was edited by IceMage on Aug 26 2023 08:15pm

But we shouldn't evaluate a business purely in financial terms. We should look at it holistically. See if its operation benefits or harms the society. Just because a company is financially successful, it does not mean it's a good company. Maybe it got rich by doing some shady things. For example, Walmart's predatory pricing, where they deliberately lower the prices of their merchandise to an abnormally low level so as to drive out competitors (usually small businesses). And once the competitors are gone, they raise the prices back up. In doing so, they enrich themselves only. Neither small businesses, the consumers or society benefit. But they are financially successful. Another thing I have heard is that Walmart does not provide extended healthcare coverage to their part-time employees. So they teach these employees how to apply for their state's welfare benefits. Again, by doing so, walmart saves tons of money and is again financially successful. But you can't seriously look at it and say that they add value and benefit to our society.

This post was edited by JessiWan on Aug 26 2023 08:34pm

If you have a problem with how a business makes it's money, you can advocate for changing laws. I happen to think Walmart is awesome because they provide jobs and cheap(and numerous) products to communities all over America. I also don't view it as a problem that part-time, unskilled laborers have to be subsidized by the state. That's not just Walmart... almost no company provides health care coverage for part time employees. That's an expensive benefit.

do you often find yourself virtually licking billionaire boot?

You say unironically while you lick Robert Reich's (a complete piece of shit and man who got rich from being a loyal minion of the regime) boot

JessiWan, welcome to the movement, comrade.

he's neither a billionaire nor does he support exploiting workers to benefit billionaires. also, quoting him doesn't mean i'm licking his boot - i simply agree with his message. that's three complete fails of you in just one short post.

either you genuinely don't know what those words mean, or you're so desperate to distract from the message, that you simply don't mind embarrassing yourself in order to do so. both rather pathetic.