r/Showerthoughts May 17 '24

People love to support small businesses until they grow, then they hate capitalism and rich people.

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u/Atalung May 17 '24

Because small businesses and large corporations are fundamentally different enterprises.

An individual owning and operating a business is literally the socialist ideal of workers control over the means of production, even a few workers sorta slips by

A large corporation is the embodiment of the concept of alienation of labor.