huge “editors choose the headline” moment

  • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    6 days ago

    They for sure aren’t operating in good faith, but it’s not entirely wrong. Orgs in the cities had a lot of discussions with business and convinced them to close down for the day. Not just the staff, management too. They wanted employees to feel more comfortable not working without fear of retaliation, and wanted to make sure others understood that asking them to shut down wasn’t meant to harm them directly by taking away their only income. Since this does affect many immigrant workers/business owners also.

    • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      6 days ago

      Remember that many small businesses in the USA are not profitable or are barely profitable. The small business tyrant and the petty bourgeois that are entirely disconnected from their workers, I would say, is a different sort of class of people than those small business owners who basically have hobby shops. My roommate has a cleaning business like this, it’s just him and one person he contracts sometimes to help and he makes like $3000 a year from it doing side-jobs on the weekends. This isn’t exactly the same class position as a small business owner in the Leninist sense when talking about the petty bourgeois.

      I think the line comes when the business starts making serious profit, enough that it becomes the owners primary income stream - and also has employees.

    • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Great context but yeah they most definitely chose to highlight the smaller part of it because they are very scared of this spreading

  • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    Can’t wait for this movement to become corporate sponsored and coopted just like the George Floyd protests

    I can already hear the libs reheating their old arguments to use again. “Corporations are powerful, isn’t it better if they’re on our side instead of on their side?” and “We are finally making gains, why are you attacking our ‘allies’ like JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo?”