Mom and pop shops cant afford to pay you. And the general sentument here on lemmy is if you cant pay someone whatever they need then your business doesnt deserve to exist. So by extension everything would shut down and LARGE portions of society would starve and die until only those capable of completely sustaining themselves through several winters survive
If only there were something between mega-corps and Mom-and-Pops… you know, something where people cooperate and all the people working there can reap the benefits of their work.
Mom and pop shops cant afford to pay you. And the general sentument here on lemmy is if you cant pay someone whatever they need then your business doesnt deserve to exist. So by extension everything would shut down and LARGE portions of society would starve and die until only those capable of completely sustaining themselves through several winters survive
wonder who lobbied for that to be that way
Doesnt matter. It is what it is. Even without lobbying small shops dont have the turn over to suppprt wages and benefits for employees
Do you always speak like a fox news propagandist or is this more of a hobby for you?
I’m going to guess you weren’t alive for the US pre-walmart.
If only there were something between mega-corps and Mom-and-Pops… you know, something where people cooperate and all the people working there can reap the benefits of their work.
Co-ops already exist and have gor hundreds of years yet still havent taken over. They dont scale well as shown by history and current reality.