Ontario Elections - Is Small Business Really the Answer?

Leo Panitch: All parties are pledging to help small business, but that's where workers have the least rights

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[BoredomCorner]

@johnnywhack Isn't "Libertarian government" a bit of an oxymoron?

[Hillsillverr]

small business = people

big business = corporate greed

[startupbuildervideos]

Not to be rude #UN#, but I found this rather dry. Try to engage your audience and present your content in a more exciting manner.

[donteatthefishsticks]

@poyani Yes, and it's also a fact that just as many people would rather be anonymous in the big city than be part of a small community, many employees raised in this anti-social society would rather work for a big corporation with an HR department and be a faceless nameless 8-digit employee number because they don't want to have real human relations and be subject to their boss's whims.

[notthere83]

@Hillsillverr unfortunately, "people" are greedy quite often too. and it is just like panitch said it - there are at least some restrictions imposed on big businesses to protect employees. but very little on small business.

though i think that shouldn't mean one should not support small businesses but instead work on better protection for employees at small businesses.

[sirpau1]

lol a video of CTV making fun of the candidates! /watch?v=t8CGSnzT1FI

Thumbs up so all can see :) Fox news in Canada!

[dharmaatdawn]

@BoredomCorner hahahhaha :) 

[cheddyrod]

@BoredomCorner Yes, but so is free enterprise.

[poyani]

@donteatthefishsticks That is not entirely true. At least in small business there are real human relations between the worker and the owner. In big business workers are just 8 digit employee numbers, with a "cost" and a "production" number justifying their existence. When the CEO of large corporations fire their workers they have the luxury of not knowing them and not caring about their families.

[donteatthefishsticks]

From an anarchist perspective, small business can be the most authoritarian. The larger the workforce the more easily they can combine to win concessions from an employer. If a store owner has one employee the employee has almost no say in the conditions of his employment, except he can quit. The anti-authoritarian left is more concerned about the unequal relationship between employer and employee than the employer's property rights.

[donteatthefishsticks]

@deshaebeasley I'm Canadian and I see nothing you've contributed in this thread except trying to shout others down. Are you trolling? I'm an anarchist/socialist and while it's not exactly the socialist register, calling it neoliberal is ridiculous. Suggest something of your own please, or admit you are not here to make allies.

[elbowbiter1]

@deshaebeasley Low blow troll.