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The level of entitlement that just most American business owners / capital holders in general have is actually delusional, insane.
Now of course... not all of them. There are a few that are not delusional, that are not totally full of thrmselves... that are, ironically, conservative, in the sense of low ongoing risk apetite and actually performing due diligence.
... But so many of them act like it is just your responsibility, your social expectation, you disgusting pleb, to buy their product or service, whatever quality it is, whatever price it is.
No, motherfucker.
Literally, that's not even capitalism, capitalism at least very much acts like / believes that a fundamental element of it is that consumers vote with their dollars, they compare and contrast the idea of 'would i rather have thing, or the money that thing costs?'
Whats going on is that a whole bunch of people, across many different sectors of business, are actually terrible business people, who did not well predict future demand or input costs, who financed their businesses based off of loans they couldn't actually afford.
Oh you can't afford a property tax hike or insurance rate hike for your business location?
Not my fucking problem, maybe you should have considered that that is a thing that could happen.
Oh you can't afford shipping and input cost increseases?
Again, not my fucking problem, maybe you should have structured a business with less thin margins, maybe you shouldn't have voted for tariffs and blowing up 1/4 of the world's oil supply.
You can just keep going with this, farmers with no more immigrant labor to exploit, casinos and tourism businesses baffled that the state doing pogroms with a gestapo is bad for business, landlords in denial over how they're not actually geniuses and are in fact underwater and overleveraged.
So much of the American sense of cultural hierarchy is based on the idea of 'i am a business owner' or 'i make good investments'.
No, you fucking idiots, you're mostly all stupid and bad at all of this, and deserve 0 cultural accolades awarded to the 'successful entrepenuer' ... because you are an incompetent entrepenuer, a failure.
Turns out, no, no this country isn't actually a meritocratic land of opportunity that rewards something like 'just giving it the good ole college try'. Turns out its massively full of itself, fake, lying to itself, and broadly systemically corrupt.
None of that can be fixed with individualistic entrepenuership.
It can only be fixed with a collective hang over / come down, realizing we need an intervention, and then realizing we are all more or less wallowing in the same field of pigshit, and will need to cooperate in mutually beneficial ways to get to anywhere better than that.
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