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 think, in an ideal world, the small business would synthesize the benefit of an economy of scale into a good or service. If they would buy food wholesale, cook it, (and refrigerate it) and give it to me in a recyclable box for a few bucks so I don’t have to do dishes or cook then I’d be really happy. But it has to be some big production with atmosphere and shit instead. Meanwhile the at scale things are filled with corn syrup and sawdust to the point it’s bullshit.
No capitalism in an ideal world
Well, of course. I guess I was thinking that, in general, an economy of scale exists for production. If you’re gonna feed people I kind of hope it works like taking raw ingredients and making less flashy things, even in a cafeteria right next to where production happens