i live down south and keep seeing local business owners posting in local groups pleading people to come buy shit at their stores prior to this winter storm because if they have to close for a few days it’s apparently detrimental for them. like they’re entitled to exist. in any other context this behavior would be considered desperate and begging. but we’re conditioned to think small business tyrants are some class above us all who are entitled to not have to work a job like the rest of us. worst case scenario they lose their business and that’s what happens, and working people are conditioned to feel sorry for them. “please don’t let me become underpaid by some asshole exactly like myself!!!”
i live in america where small businesses are venerated by the government and media while they pay their employees starvation wages, using “we’re just a small business” as an excuse while they take vacations and live this wealthy person’s lifestyle. because they’re apparently more entitled to that than their employees are to healthcare or a house. i can only speak from an american perspective, tho i did live over in europe for a few years i can’t say i know enough to comment on this subject. there are good small businesses but it’ll be like one out of every 5000 or some shit. almost none of them.