If a $15 minimum wage was to hurt small business’ it would be because those business’ were already so damaged by huge multinational corporations that monopolized entire industries like Amazon and Walmart. If you wanna talk about broadening the economic agenda (Thread)
that addresses inequality in our economy to include legislation that benefits small business’ I’m all for it. What I don’t have time for is this circular reasoning bullshit that says we have no choice but to stick with unfettered capitalism because -
we are already living with the consequences of decades of unfettered capitalism. If we banned corporate monopolies or at the very least banned them from creating chains in certain areas, the mom and pop stores in those places would thrive and could very easily -
afford to pay their employees a livable wage. STOP pretending you care about small business’ only when you are trying to deny workers the ability to fucking eat and live indoors.
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