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Vygode

Vygode

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Hi everyone!
I just got done eating at a small local Mexican (legal) restaurant. The food is quite good and inexpensive, and the people there are really nice.
It's important to buy from local companies instead of soulless corporate bastards in order to invest (and get feedback from) our local communities.
For too long, soulless corporations have exploited people and left innocent businesses in the dust meanwhile small business owners contribute long shifts, with little pay.

I know the disadvantage to doing this is that it's more expensive and lower class people cant do this and need to shop at corporations like Walmart and others to actually survive, but i think the result is more than worth it.

What actions do you think should be taken to ensure business owners that actually care about their community thrive?
 
ok bro, i will go to my illegal mexican restaurant next, they are also very small in the business.

Vygode said:
What actions do you think should be taken to ensure business owners that actually care about their community thrive?
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hire roof koreans and kill niggers
 
The unfortunate truth is that small businesses can exploit people too, and going to one just because it is a small business just leads them into exploiting more people even quicker should they become a big business. In fact, plenty of small businesses and family-run stuff around the areas I've driven charge out the asshole for stuff that is genuinely better quality elsewhere and won't even take help to make it better quality because they know what's best.
For example, there's a small lil' family owned seller that sells butter. They say it's fresh churned, right outta the farmer's market. You soon learn that they churn it using milk from Wal-Mart and the ingredients in that butter is like 75% goyslop and 25% butter. But they deflect criticism with "oh, we're just a small business!"
I'm not saying this to discourage people from going small business btw. I'm just saying to still do your research on them before you just blindly buy, otherwise you're STILL being exploited and leaving others to be exploited as well.
Vygode said:
What actions do you think should be taken to ensure business owners that actually care about their community thrive?
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If you do find a business you like, help with advertising to more people and see if the business could use some hired help with protection.
 
MisterListerTheBlister said:
The unfortunate truth is that small businesses can exploit people too
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There's also the unfortunate truth of small business owners having ties to politicians in the towns.
I used to work at a discount store that could sell beer, but couldn't get a liquor license, despite falling well within the guidelines for one. Meanwhile, the owner of several restaurants bought an abandoned building and was easily able to get his liquor license and turning that building into an overpriced liquor store.
 
Señora Airi said:
There's also the unfortunate truth of small business owners having ties to politicians in the towns.
I used to work at a discount store that could sell beer, but couldn't get a liquor license, despite falling well within the guidelines for one. Meanwhile, the owner of several restaurants bought an abandoned building and was easily able to get his liquor license and turning that building into an overpriced liquor store.
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Man, that sucks. I know living in a community that only has a few thousand people I can tell some newspapers of the town have obvious political bias but that's a given living in a rural area.
One of my friends got evicted recently and had to move to a completely separate side of the state due to every tenant know everyone else there.
I guess that means it could also be an opportunity to start your own business but I know shit like that is risky as hell and most business fail within 2 years IIRC. Still I see some opportunities like how certain parts of where I live have a demand for a niche or certain type of business.
 
I avoid dining at restaurant chains when I travel, unless I have literally no other choice. Likewise, nearly all the beer I drink is local or at least independently owned.

On another note, I've noticed that quite a few local contracting firms (plumbers, electricians, HVAC, etc.) have been getting bought up by private equity. It's important to look into this before you hire anyone for a job at your house.
 
Mojo Thief said:
I avoid dining at restaurant chains when I travel, unless I have literally no other choice. Likewise, nearly all the beer I drink is local or at least independently owned.

On another note, I've noticed that quite a few local contracting firms (plumbers, electricians, HVAC, etc.) have been getting bought up by private equity. It's important to look into this before you hire anyone for a job at your house.
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Very often in some countries it is impossible to tell appart which businesses are chains. I once looked into a tourist town in NZ and found out that every pub, bar, and club is owned by the same 2 multinational corporations. If they have a website, check the apply section and if they take you to some foreign domain it's probably a multinational corporation.

Corporate owned is basically the same as a chain since they all use the same suppliers and have their menus designed by the same chefs.
 
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