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dawnatella<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Irreverent_B" class="u-url mention">@<span>Irreverent_B</span></a></span> what you read as waste can also be seen as difference. variety, plurality, individual expression. the only way you get a completely efficient system is a closed system that doesn&#39;t permit anything different &amp; individual to mix things up. I think <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/smbiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>smbiz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> can be creative and allows us to express ourselves and serve one another. both art &amp; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/smbiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>smbiz</span></a> are messy! <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monopoly</span></a> (another closed system) is the enemy, not the freeplay of ideas. i think there&#39;s a middle way.</p>
dawnatella<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@chopsstephens" class="u-url mention">@<span>chopsstephens</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tane.codes/@tanepiper" class="u-url mention">@<span>tanepiper</span></a></span> I think it&#39;s much much harder to use the govt to break up monopolies than it is to strategically use the market to do so. and it scares the crap out of entrepreneur-voters to think the govt is going to come smash &amp; grab their biz. Yes, we need to find our balls and tax but the best tax law is that which incentivizes the kind of economy we want to grow in our garden. I suggest we want to grow many <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SmBiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmBiz</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coop</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ESOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ESOP</span></a> because then the citizens would own the market.</p>
dawnatella<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@chopsstephens" class="u-url mention">@<span>chopsstephens</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tane.codes/@tanepiper" class="u-url mention">@<span>tanepiper</span></a></span> Different server instances are like having many <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Smbiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Smbiz</span></a> that can innovate and fill in, creating specialization and many choices. Above all, in both <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>democracy</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> we want free choice. The greatest of those choices (and hardest!) is to say &quot;take this job and shove it&quot; to the man and start your own SmBiz. if only progressives understood this we&#39;d win every election and take over the economy.</p>
dawnatella<p>No one wants their taxes to go up. Our tax heavy platform will naturally scare voters away -- and apparently they will vote for election deniers and fascists if it suits their pocketbook!<br />I hope <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/progressives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>progressives</span></a> will consider being <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SmBiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmBiz</span></a> owner&#39;s best friend, putting them in the center of a positive view of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CitizenOwnership" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CitizenOwnership</span></a> of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AmericanDream" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanDream</span></a>.<br />I think it would get a lot of voters back onboard and it actually charts a course for how to achieve the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EconomicJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicJustice</span></a> goals we all want.</p><p>/end</p>
dawnatella<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Organizedconsumers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Organizedconsumers</span></a> is the other part of this.<br />We didn&#39;t need anti-trust regulation to break up twitter. We just choose to go elsewhere. <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Organizedconsumers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Organizedconsumers</span></a> can get instant responses. <br />Just the threat of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>boycott</span></a> causes corps to change course immediately. <br />Imagine if instead of amazon, we had a federated buying forum where all <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Smbiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Smbiz</span></a> could list their goods, USPS delivers, and no algorithm enriches a billionaire? <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StrategicBuying" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StrategicBuying</span></a> should be empowered by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>progressive</span></a> policies <br />6/</p>
dawnatella<p>The reason magats are calling us fascists is they fear the centralization that we shouldn&#39;t want either.</p><p>We can lead with a new <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Progressive</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>American</span></a> Dream, clearly defining that the optimal market under our watch would prioritize <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WorkerOwned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorkerOwned</span></a> biz &amp; aggressively incentivize large multi-state corps to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EmployeeOwnership" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EmployeeOwnership</span></a>.<br /> <br />Incentivize means giving tax breaks to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SmBiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmBiz</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EO</span></a> biz and penalizing those that don&#39;t spread the equity around. </p><p>Give workers a paycheck and a profit check</p><p>5/</p>
dawnatella<p>A <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SmBiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmBiz</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EmployeeOwned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EmployeeOwned</span></a>, decentralized marketplace is exactly what we ought to be championing if we want to achieve <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EconomicJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicJustice</span></a> and disrupt the foundations upon which maga paranoia rests. We can&#39;t achieve <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EconomicJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicJustice</span></a> by taxing all corps and giving the $ away from the federal govt. administration of that would be horrible and fraught w questions of fairness. It should be done by a citizen&#39;s take-over of the market from the ground up -- by prioritizing worker-owned businesses. 4/<br />4/</p>
dawnatella<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a> - 1 of x</p><p>I&#39;m <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GenX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenX</span></a> into <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nafo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nafo</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TwitterRefugee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwitterRefugee</span></a> </p><p>A <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SmallBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmallBusiness</span></a> accountant w passionate opinions about what I think a positive <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Progressive</span></a> or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democratic</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Economics</span></a> should be about, I think we&#39;re missing the mark and chasing <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SmBiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmBiz</span></a> voters into the hands of the right. will rant accordingly.</p><p>I&#39;m crafty. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sewing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JewelryMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JewelryMaking</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Lapidary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lapidary</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fashion</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Watercolors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Watercolors</span></a> </p><p>Always looking for <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EastBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EastBay</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/IndoorRockClimbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndoorRockClimbing</span></a> peeps for a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Belay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Belay</span></a></p>
dawnatella<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@BlackAzizAnansi" class="u-url mention">@<span>BlackAzizAnansi</span></a></span> it will take a shared enthusiasm over a new American dream that all voters - including most of the right - would believe in. It will take a leader able to chart a middle course and tell voters on both sides realities they don’t want to hear in a way both can still sign on to. People vote w their $$$ not their best interests. Sorry. That’s the reality. We drive entrepreneurial voters into the arms of the right every day. We should embrace <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/smbiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>smbiz</span></a> voters, they’re us!</p>
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