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How to say you’re a scab without saying you’re a scab: Won’t somebody please think of the economy?! And what happened soon after Congress defanged workers’ safety concerns? The East Palestine derailment catastrophe.
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My restaurant never would have survived it. I went into debt to keep my workers paid during this time. I was in a group for small business owners in my city who were in the same boat as me. The economy would have been hurt, sure, but it wouldn’t screw over Walmart and Amazon. It would have screwed over us little guys just trying to get buy.
You can claim to be anti-oligarchy, but big business would have been fine. And a McDonald’s probably would have taken my spot and replaced my jobs with minimum wage drones.
You calling minimum wage workers “drones” says everything anyone ever needed to know about you.
So you’ve obviously never worked at a McDonald’s. It’s literally a mindless job. It’s fucking awful, and you literally just drone through your day. You’re not even trusted with cooking eggs, it’s all automated on timers.
At my restaurant, people get to be creative. dishes on the menu, specials. They get paid above industry standard. When I couldn’t have all my staff on during lockdown, I laid people to not work.
I’m not rich. I live in a one bedroom apartment. I’m still paying off debt I actúes keeping salaries going on workers who weren’t even working. I’m not the enemy. But whatever.
Small business people are every bit as insufferable as big business people
I don’t claim to be merely anti-oligarchy; I’m socialist. And I don’t mean progressive liberal like AOC was or Sanders is, I mean actually socialist.
Anyway, maybe the strike really would have forced you to shutter, or maybe you could have gotten the PPP loans to limp through it. Or maybe in response to the strike, Congress could or would have increased the PPP loans to employers and/or COVID relief funds to families. We’ll never really know.