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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Small businesses are often worse, since there's less oversight, more willingness to gamble on 'risks', a need for higher margins to stay afloat and generally fewer different interests at stake. The issue is private ownership in itself, not how that private ownership is structured.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Knowing some small local business owners I’d say that the problem is that the business reflects the owner’s personality - so you can have a place that respects both its customers and employees or a shithole owned by person too high up their own arse, which is often the case with IT firms.

    Made a mistake of working at one, with owners boasting “we were the first ones to do X thing in our market”, whilst the office was a musty basement in middle of nowhere.

    Nowadays if I know that certain business is owned by person or group of people I don’t like (be that due to their personal values or affiliations with certain politicians or whatever) I make sure to avoid supporting that business and I spread the message to friends and colleagues.

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