Honestly, a lot of propaganda for "entrepeneurship" is a scam on both aspiring business owners *and* on workers, designed to split the working class against itself (MLMs are the classic example of this) bsky.app/profile/karl...

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Something that the mainstream media doesn't explain to voters is that this is by design — one of the main reasons Republicans keep the current healthcare system is because it makes workers reluctant to switch jobs or start a business, which suppresses wages and makes them easier to exploit

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(Of course the ultimate dream in this regard is some kind of UBI, but you could de-link health insurance from employment a lot more easily!)

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Yes, and fixing this is pretty high on my list of "ways we could make the employment relationship less structurally coercive (and thereby fix capitalism)"

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i am a pragmatist and if you and i share similar goals we are never actually enemies in my accounting

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