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!!!"

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[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see people selling things like diapers and laundry soap on the sidewalk sometimes, the stuff seems like it might be shoplifted and it's super cheap, that's a type of small business I could potentially support.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

The price of baby necessities is outrageous, I support all those bootlegging baby items. Its also an indictment on Amerikkka that in most stores you go into, those items are completely locked up.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

hell yeah, either lifted from a store or they work at a distributor and lifted it there. i support that too.