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Had me at the first part ngl

Become your own boss and I can exploit you like an employee but fire you at will and you pay your own taxes

mrfugu [he/him, any] - 18hr

Yeah this guys definitely selling a “class” for three payments of $99.99

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ryepunk [he/him] - 17hr

Nah that's so 2015, these days its twelve classes at 999.99 each, but if they order right now they'll cut that price in half to 649.99. and if you make a support claim about it they'll say you've passed the first test and gain access to the VIP class, only 249.99 for big brain boys. And there's only ten of them.

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LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name] - 17hr

When you finally free yourself of capitalist ideology only to land on 1800s american mutualist type sole proprietorship ideology without realizing they tried that shit already

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PKMKII [none/use name] - 17hr

As is so often the case with these things, it only works if there’s infinite resources, mostly land in this case. As long as people can keep moving into the “unoccupied” territory one valley over, then yeah everyone can access sole proprietorship. Once scarcity hits, though, primitive accumulation kicks in and consolidation happens.

The only way around that is a robust state program to ensure equitable distribution and that’s verboten for people pushing this ideology.

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LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name] - 16hr

There's also just like capitalism inherently favoring larger organizations of production, even with "you can just go out and steal some land" as a release valve you're still going to see bigger players forming monopolies and inevitably buying out or outcompeting the little bean sole proprietors

The only way around that is a robust state program to ensure equitable distribution and that’s verboten for people pushing this ideology

Yeah lol and it still probably wouldn't work at all

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PKMKII [none/use name] - 16hr

There's also just like capitalism inherently favoring larger organizations of production, even with "you can just go out and steal some land" as a release valve you're still going to see bigger players forming monopolies and inevitably buying out or outcompeting the little bean sole proprietors

Yeah that is a common misconception about how western expansion happened in the US. It gets depicted as a massive cell cluster of small family farms blooming forth, but in reality it was rich east coast land speculators buying up all the choice parcels and the small family farms ended up with the scraps.

Yeah lol and it still probably wouldn't work at all

It’d be massively inefficient. At that level of state involvement it’d be more straightforward to just socialize the economy and only keep around the handful of sole proprietorships that serve some sort of useful niche.

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RNAi [he/him] - 19hr

The equity thing isn't about buying shares in the company you are working for? It's not the greatest idea anyways

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10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL [any, any] - 16hr

"Give us part of the money we give you guys that way we can give you the money we got from other people"

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sgtlion [any] - 16hr

It's not the answer by any means, but within this system, I would personally fully recommend self employment to anyone who feels they could do it. Self employed in a B2B trade was the best part of my career, and I'm hoping to soon to get back to it.

Full autonomy, got a modicum of respect, I got to tell assholes to fuck off, wrote off so many expenses for tax, I learned a lot.

Obviously YMMV greatly, but in my experience it gets a lot of unwarranted flak as an option. And admittedly not quite what people tend to mean when they say 'Entrepeneur'.

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10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL [any, any] - 16hr

it really depends where one is in life. For me i find it's a prison, I owe shitload of taxes, i have no right to unemployment if something goes south. Here we fought to have good employing conditions and the reason they want everybody to become self employed is to go around it

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DogThatWentGorp [he/him, they/them] - 17hr

Big quark energy

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10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL [any, any] - 16hr

oh you dont like r*pists? why dont you become one if it's so easy

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AssortedBiscuits [they/them] - 11hr

How to become rich with two easy steps:

  1. Be born into a rich family.

  2. Don't blow the family fortune on stupid shit like the Cybertruck and memecoins.

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infuziSporg [e/em/eir] - 50min

Idk, I'm doing pretty decently working minimum wage, but that's because of a mix of macroeconomic conditions, thrift, and sharing.

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DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them] - 16hr

….Just hire people, bro.

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