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maybe it's my startup experience talking but ime small business owners are generally tyrants and cranks, their own type of evil distinct from major CEOs or whatever

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i know you did not intend it, but now I have snippets of songs from Joseph and the Motherfucking Technicolor Dreamcoat stuck in head

lol...I've actually been in that musical twice.

may it be relegated to the ashheap of musical theater history

my personal experience working for small business owners: first was a narcissist with cult-leader aspirations (also my boyfriend haha!), second was a libertarian boomer chauvinist who expected everyone to work as hard as he did for $15 / hour (said libertarian notably worked for years in the national park service and presumably had great benefits because of it), third was for my brother in his fintech startup, basically a charity position and i got treated with kid gloves until i got laid off. i'm now working for the state and it's mellow so i'm feeling pretty good about larger bureaucracies atm.

my experience working for small businesses has not, overall, left me with a lot of respect for small business owners as a class. i am not inclined to elucidate further on a public forum.

take any group of many thousands of people and you will find examples of the most wonderful and worst human beings

except in eminence, MO. there you will find nothing but the worst

small business owners and big business owners often gravitate towards the horrible, it's just easier to be discreet terrible when you're a big publicly traded company and ergo have an HR you can 'blame'

Or do they prefer no businesses at all?

― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, July 7, 2020 9:09 AM (two hours ago)

well,

not a conservative belief though

anyway I've resolved not to get in fights on ilx during business hours after what happened in March so namaste

How about busy-ness.

I am going to try and not take this personally, and go super aggro on you, but your smarmy shtick is really grating, in general. It just reeks of white boi privilege and being like ... 25 years old ... and fear. Like, you strike me as someone is who afraid to risk anything real, but are happy to judge other people who do.

love this extremely pompous bad post, esp the ditumish "sorry you're not brave" bit. this site is truly joyless, our time would be better spent going back to crying about what toxic pieces of shit we are

Have you, ahem, seen some of the invective hurled by the person those comments were made towards during the last few months?

sarahell's comments didn't just occur in a vacuum.

(I'm not anti-silby or anything, just saying silby was doing a "small business owners are scum of the earth" type spiel that irked several actual business owner ilxors not all that long ago in a separate thread, so some of that probably factors in here).

i don't understand treating "small business owners" as a single category. it doesn't make any sense.

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idgi either, perhaps because I know quite a few of them who don't fit the mold being proposed here.

I get that there are groups that deserve collective scorn even if there are exceptions who prove the rule, I just don't get why small business owners are "it", per se. which isn't to deny anybody's bad experiences with small business owners, it's just....idk why treating them like a homogeneous entity helps anything really.

absolute idealism births absolute value systems
please, they're lovely pies and i have an hbo max subscription to keep up

UCB: Steven Pinker should continue to be a Fellow of the Linguistics Society of America

However I will pair my UCB with the Cool Left Belief that it is ridiculous to consider the UCB in any way a transgressive, illicit, or god-help-me "brave" belief to hold or to express

i played one of Joseph's brothers in that musical ... there were four other cis-females who played brothers, but i was the only one with boobs ... i think i had 4 solo lines ??? I think one was "we are ill"

more like two over-hyped exemplars of privilege. ppl should stop worshipping lucier and give credit to the first early humans who felt a transcendental tranquility as they contemplated their mortality and the limits of their self as they listened to the echoes of their voice bouncing off the rocks of the great rift valley

― rumpy riser (ogmor), Sunday, June 14, 2020 8:56 AM (three weeks ago)

i love this extremely pompous bad post of yours! Glad we can mutually appreciate each other!

I'm touched you went to the trouble of digging it out, sorry if you had to scroll through too much uk politics content

i also scrolled through a number of posts about marxism and the left as well that I thought were quite good, actually ... and your posts on the keeping up with new music thread were quite un-pompous

also Gucci Gucci is one of my fave songs as well

*munches an apple*

Reveal Your Cool Detentes Here

silby is frankly a master at making ppl disgrace themselves talking down to him & meeting his flippancy with serious scorn, but the personal rubbish is unnecessary and unhealthy for all concerned (don't you think ilx works better when we don't have to hear what people think they really think of each other?) including the reader, who is so very tired

i for one could generally use a nap

lol I come from a long line of small business owners and I’m dying at the thought of stanning for them as a class?! Like I’ve worked for other small businesses and they absolutely do play the “sorry we can’t pay you more” tune while squeezing you for everything you’re worth...there’s no noble way to do wage theft.

xxp - uh, if you found my post disgraceful, then that's on you. silby is so far from a master, it is sad ... it really is ... otoh, most of the true masters of those things you mention appear to be sociopaths and have been banned and/or quit ilx. silby is a smug child that will grow up to be a self-loathing middle aged person still waiting on the revolution ... or develop more nuanced beliefs based on actual lived experiences of other people whom they will likely encounter over time.

Why do we have to do anything with small business people as a class?

nah it wasn’t just him.

Like have we just accepted they're a monolith or

you’d probably want to read my post again before projecting the argument you want to be responding to.

😗🎶

Fraudulent emoji I can’t really whistle

silby's great, would prefer their perspective to many cis shitheads who will post here forever

I can only whistle by blowing out, not breathing in. And the only tune I can do is Alpha Beta Gaga.

I think the average job (at least in the states) is a garbage place to work, why add "small" in front

Neanderthal -- which roles did you play in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat?

I ain't rereading shit guac

yeah I could tell mate, don’t waste your words!

so, okay ... WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS? ... I feel like this term is being used to refer to different things by different posters?

this whirlwind of confusing beef will surely only benefit sales of my delicious meat pies
please, they are on COVID special and will surely allow me to buy more hard drives

i don't think anything silby said above was really revelatory. But I am not searching through old posts to find the source of drama.

Uncool though not necessarily conservative belief I more or less sincerely hold: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the best contemporary musical