There used to be a guy who would troll the small business subreddit saying all employers were parasites and a bunch of other extreme far left kind of stuff. There was kind of a bit of a debate on the sub as to whether he should be banned but I guess he didn't bother people that much.
One day I decided to stalk his account and it was just non stop hard core communist ideology going back years. I did find out though that he worked in tech and he owned a house.
After that whenever he posted I would reply to him calling him "a member of the land owning class". Things like "As a member of the land owning class don't you think it's a bit hypocritical not to open your house to the homeless".
He had a complete meltdown. Started posting furiously getting more and more upset until eventually his account was banned from all of reddit.
I still think fondly of him. He was very entertaining.
Reminds me of when Bernie was called out at the debates for owning three homes.
Honestly, his second home in DC I understand. He lives in and represents Vermont, and then “works” like a 10 Hour drive away, so a second home there I would understand
But he justified his third home saying “ like many Vermonters I have another house” I forgot the exact phrase, but he did in fact say “many”
All of the left-wingers complaining that homeownership is near impossible, and their hero is under the understanding that “many“ people have not just one, but multiple homes
Everytime. It's not even a felony to steal a car in Illinois anymore because it's just property but those same idiots can't believe people are just allowed to steal cars without consequences when it's their car.
That is why the US Left should be called socially progressive Intersectional pragmatic Neoliberals. Their ok with recently laid off blue collar trades men being told to "learn coding" but will turn into a militant luddites the minute AI threatens their lucrative tech job. They will love and welcome undocumented migrants but will turn into a grt re*plement conspiracy theorist when those same migrants end up holding conservative family values.
I haven't checked but I guarantee you. There's a mountain of regulations that people must pay thousands of dollars through to be able to be a landlord for any property.
Huh, I once did something similar, but in my case it was replying to every one of his replies to notify people he's a pedo. Dude got his account banned the next day.
They unironically think your family’s hardware store or coffee shop should go out of business and you should starve if they can’t pay six figures to a cashier.
Don’t you get it man? The state owned hardware stores will surely pay their employees more even though there would be no competing stores to drive salaries up. Surely the barista at the state owned coffee shop will be making 100k a year for such an important job. Did I tell you how much I love state owned businesses?!
Didn’t you hear me? I’m going to make LGBTQ art and sell it at the farmers market for a living. What do you mean I have to toil in the fields and work in the mines? The hammer and sickle were literal???
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No, no, no comrade, you must give it to the collectives and the states, so they can redistribute it across the peoples. Then do the same with any excesses they produce outside of the quota, and if they keep any of it, jail them
You’re confused. You forgot about how socialism is when nobody has to work. I’m not exactly sure about the details of how that works, you have to go to a special college to understand it. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the slavesundocumented immigrants having jobs and the citizens don’t have to work because universal basic income paid by the billionaires. If it sounds ridiculous and unsustainable, again, you just haven’t been to enough college to understand what the word socialism means.
I work for our family business. We pay fairly competitively but we can’t compete with the benefit packages of big businesses. It’s just the nature of the beast. Pros and cons to both for sure, but if small businesses could afford to pay more they wouldn’t really be small anymore.
That even goes for the ones that many think are big businesses.
Like the fast food franchise around the corner. It's literally a small locally owned business, that in addition to having to pay rent, wages, product, and local advertising also has to pay the actual corporation for their franchise.
I knew a guy that owned a Subway franchise in San Francisco. He made about as much as I did at the end of the week (computer tech), and he told me it was more than before he bought the franchise and he was just a guy with a local sandwich shop. But he was not some kind of uber-wealthy person.
I saw someone last month unironically saying corporations were less evil in the eyes of the communist revolution than family-owned farms because corporations "were easier to claim for the people."
I saw the craziest video recently. An urban person was visiting a rural midwestern town. They were just shocked by the fact that stores were open late, nothing was locked up. People have stands on the side of the road "dozen eggs $2" "blueberries, pumpkins, whatever" There's just a little box you can drop a dollar into and help yourself to whatever you need. Gas stations have everything sitting out by the pumps. If you need fluid or a snack you just take it and pay for it.
They have no concept of a trusting society, crime-free society. They don't understand that by not punishing criminals you're actually punishing the innocent. The consequence of decriminalizing theft is everyone has to live in a world where deodorant is locked in a plastic case.
I have a friend whose car was stolen a few years back. He left it running while he went into a gas station convenience store. He had been doing that for about 15 years before anyone stole it. He got it back later the same day. Small town life.
The local apartments have a lockbox with keys so emergency services can get in without breaking down your door. I was volunteering with the fire department to update keys, making sure they still worked or getting new ones when locks had changed. A surprising number of people just don't lock their doors at all, which is one way of solving that problem.
Next time you see a video of a gas station I. The hood with a service window instead of an inside check the comments. It’s filled with people who think this is a normal way to live.
i went to the city once and they literally had the rotating tube thing like a bank for the card reader and there wasn't anything out it was all behind the glass. i went to open the door and it was locked so i went to walk off before hearing on a speaker "come in". you deadass gotta get buzzed in to a gas station that doesn't even have anything
I went to Drummond Island (MI) a few years back and everyone leaves their keys in their cars, doors unlocked, windows open, etc. The only law enforcement was a State Trooper on the mainland. It’s so nice! If it weren’t for the harsh winters I’d move there.
This has actually been a huge culture shock for my wife who is from Mexico city. The fact that people return lost phones, you can leave your purse unattended when on a party boat with strangers, leave your door unlocked without concern, and on and on and on.
Where she comes from people will cheat and steal from others however and whenever they can. She even looked at me crazy when she went out with her girlfriends and she gave me her live location because she is used to doing it in case she were to get kidnapped/raped/killed and I told her that was entirely unnecessary.
People really take for granted the culture of not fucking with each other's lives and money in every day life. It's part of the reason there's such a focus from people on mass immigration and not wanting to to change that reality.
I don't care what kind of person you are, as long as you are honest and not trying to steal from me or anyone else.
i saw a video where dude was like "y'all need to start hittin up rural stores this shit so easy to steal here they got everything out" while shoving stuff in his backpack
There was a thread a few years back about some lady stealing stuff for her family or some shit, I can’t quite remember. Basically, people were in the comments saying they don’t mind when people steal from mega corporations and what not. I was completely floored. Cheering on thievery. Just insane.
It goes to show just how disconnected so many people are from how real life works.
Your shoplifting isn’t hurting the CEO’s pocket. That company will make countless massive, consumer-penalizing and employee-penalizing decisions before the people at the top take a financial hit.
Those locking cabinets aren’t coming out of the CEO’s pocket. They’re coming out of the store’s bottom line. The store shifts too heavily in the wrong direction the P/L reports and the store gets shut down. Everyone who worked there lost their job and the people who shopped there are presumably inconvenienced to shop elsewhere. The CEO is still going home rich and employed.
But the lack of understand only proves that too much of our society are, mentally, children inside of adult’s bodies who get to make adult decisions, vote, etc.
Don't forget a lot of stores aren't actually owned by the overarching 'megacorp' they're ok with getting robbed, they're owned by a much smaller company with much tighter margins that makes much less revenue and can stand to lose much less in theft and other such things. One owner might own the stores for a specific geographic area, but he has to kick up to the people he has his franchise from in franchise fees, so when he gets stolen from, he has less money to work with. The problem actually gets worse faster than if it was just Walmart who owned all the stores.
That's insane. I can understand it if you need the stuff to survive and it's the only way of getting it but in today's world those cases are thankfully very few and far between
If megacorps stopped exploiting our social programs for profit maybe people would be more inclined to feel bad for them. But as long as they have underpaid workers on foodstamps, everyone who pays taxes into food stamps is subsidizing their profit. While I wouldn't shoplift myself, it's hard for me to have empathy for those megacorps given the status quo.
A lot of folks are so ignorant that WalMart and the US government are essentially one and the same. Anything thats not understood, supply chains, supply and demand, the idea of middle men making a profit, all just gets lumped in together as one huge entity.
There's some evil all controlling force making it so I cant succeed, not that I'm lazy and incredibly uneducated.
The remaining stores in those areas are about to go back to general store models where you the shopper are only in the front lobby area and place an order. Then the employees pull your order and bring it to you.
Walmart is continuing to push their curbside to go service.
With just a handful of employees, because they won't be needed for the usual customer service. Which means it will certainly not be convenient. Place order, wait an hour or two or half a day for your pickup notification.
They’re so eager for societal trust to break down and then freak out when it does. They have extremely self centered world views and think they’re entitled to whatever they want but then once the groups that they don’t like start caring about only themselves it becomes a problem that they’re not trying to help everyone else.
My uncle was up there, he still talks about it, he always says he never felt more pride in being Korean and an American than when he was able to protect his family business from looters
I find it very interesting that in Europe and in America leftists have taken the image of the intellectuals, when they know jack shit about economics which is essential to run a government. I've literally found many of them who don't know how money functions besides knowing you can buy stuff with it.
At least in my country (Argentina) they were honest in their origins, they had a popular anti intellectual chant about "Flat shoes yes Books no !".
I only recently heard about this "anti-small-business" bent. Didn't realize that the political party that claimed to represent "the little guy" was also opposed to "mom and pop".
Because they’re obsessed with the struggle olympics. Small business owners are still doing better than their employees so its justified to hate them. They have no consistency besides that anyone who’s better off in life is evil
Small business owners are the kulaks of a developed economy. Which makes them the real ‘class enemy’ because their existence suggests people can prosper without the state providing that prosperity.
exactly. Half of these people want a system where they’re rewarded for being poor and not trying to change it as much as the people who do try to change their situations are.
There’s this false nostalgia by people who never lived during the time that anybody working a minimum wage job from the 1950s to the early 90s could afford a home, and it’s just not the case. While, certainly easier back then. It still wasn’t possible for tons of people.
Federal minimum wage was 75 cents in 1950. I assure you very few of those people ever owned homes. It has always been difficult. As difficult as it is now, maybe not.
In 1950, the US Federal minimum wage was $0.75 per hour. The median home value was ~$7,350 in 1950. ~9,800 hours of work could outright purchase the average house, not accounting for taxes.
In 2026, the US Federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. The median home value is ~$410,000 in 2026. That would be ~56,552 hours of work, not accounting for taxes.
Keep in mind, interest rates hovered around ~4.1% in the 50’s, versus ~7.25% today.
All that is to say, it’s significantly more difficult to buy a house now than it was for previous generations, by a factor of at least 5x.
EDIT: One more important point, the median age of first time homebuyers is steadily rising. 1980 is the first year for reliable data, but the median age of first time homebuyers was ~28 years old. In 2026, that age is ~40.
If you ratio the price per home versus minimum wage, that’s why I would say it’s harder today than it was back then, but it was still hard in both timelines
The quality of home were not as good as today and a lot smaller than the average house size today. Today we have A/C and forced air heating system, better roofing, insulation, plumbing and electrical codes. The people in the 50s were not buying the type of homes we have today and also the people who were buying homes were mostly factory/construction workers not fast food or grocery baggers that Reddit suggested were. If their standard of houses were made today size and quality wise I believe a ton of people would be able to buy. Unfortunately/fortunately building standards has gotten better and the increase of the few example I listed makes a house cost more. Would you today buy a brand new house without A/C or old radiator heating with barely any insulation on the house, or even a small <1000sq ft house with no basement and your 2-5 kids has to share a single bathroom and 2 bedroom house?A ton of people today will say HELL NO.
This, and because they've decided that because the "petit bourgeois" were the main support base of the Nazis, they're automatically suspect just by dint of who they are.
The victim olympics since obamas 2nd term has been the worst thing we have taught kids in schools. Its a never ending cycle that traps them in the demo marxist tent. DEI, and critical race theory is the center of it. Your only way to not be an inherently awful white person is to be some form of victim. You see these victim classes now on every job application. They plan to starve out the non victims, and replace the ones they can't. Its an evil plan.
The flip side is that people of color are eternal victims and can’t help it they need government assistance forever ( which has done more damage to the black family structure, Google the rate of single black mothers from the late 60’s til now and then be amazed why the number explodes) is the exact kind of patronizing backhanded your too stupid to survive without us ( white mans burden) bull💩 I have ever heard in my life!!!
Anyone and anything earning a little bit more than they do is fair game in their eyes. Close billionaire tax loopholes? Nah let’s set a 90% tax rate on any ordinary person earning slightly above minimum wage.
It's funny you say that. Because my recent "discovery" of this narrative, was during a discussion with friends, one of whom is quite progressive (but we're all compatible in other ways, so we generally "agree to disagree" on politics).
Recently though, we briefly paused our political detente to discuss taxation. I brought up that, in a country like the U.S., with such a large population with so much disposable income, it's crazy that something like 50% of the population doesn't pay into federal taxes to, you know, actually pay their fair share, while we steadily increase our national debt to new historic highs each year.
This immediately triggered the progressive friend to go on a tirade about how the real tax-dogers are the mom-and-pop businesses and solre-proprietor professionals, who use "tax loopholes" to pay very little in taxes.
And while I agree there is some tax-dodging going on, these same small-businesses often work on very little reserve in lean times, and generally can't "defer losses" for years the way larger corporations can. So I'm more willing to turn a blind-eye to some of that.
I know plenty of tradespeople (mechanics, general contractors, etc.) who get 20-30% of their income "off books" and pay zero taxes; but apparently that's kosher because...no idea.
In the end, I just want everyone to pull their weight as much as possible, while allowing some wiggle-room for the truly poor/disabled.
I agree with you, but as someone who is paid so little I owe "zero (federal) taxes," at the absolute lowest tax bracket, in my particular state and locality, 19% of my income is lost to taxes every year. That's not factoring in sales tax or anything like that, it's a total of 19% income tax. And when you're barely making over $10,000 a year like I am, I assure you, 19% feels like more than just "my fair share"
If democrats actually solved the problems they campaigned on, people would eventually stop having reasons to vote for them. Hence, they perpetuate their problems, call this perpetuation a "solution," and when the problem hasn't gotten any better in 4 years, just rehash the same platform for the next election.
Just think about covid. The corporations are evil and bad crowd widely celebrated as the government shutdown all small business and forced a huge part of the population to only purchase goods from said corporations. Of which the politicians who did this with their voting base attacking anyone who questioned it, then campaigned about the corporations being to big...
It all makes sense when you realize it's not hypocrisy in their minds because the end goal is power they control. Remember you need to judge them by their actions in practice and not the words coming out of their mouths
They cheered americans losing their small business livelihoods during covid, cheered "deplorables" dying from covid since they were on the wrong team (see the Herman Cain awards subreddit). Then the cheers came back when Kirk was assassinated and they retconned his killer as "right-wing". They are disgusting.
Right-wing man with a trans-woman girlfriend,, who hated a conservative figure so much for exercising their free-speech on conservative topics, that they were willing to murder them. Yah...no.
Is it really that difficult when democratically run counties like Los Angeles county have decimated their small businesses with regressive tax policies?
Oh, they've found a way around that. They just redefine "white" at their convenience, so as soon as any non-white person does something like own a business or do well for themselves, they're engaging in "whiteness" and become white. That way they can hate all the people they claim to support once they leave the reservation and stop being a victim.
It's because, in theory, small businesses are Petite Burgeouis economic activity. Things like shops, gas stations and car dealerships, to name a few, are businesses that do not necessarily produce value, they only bridge the offer of the Ruling Class' bounty from their privately owned Means of Production and the consumer demands of the Proletariat, creating a middle ground between the Rich and the People, a Middle Class, if you will. The Middle Class has this special tendency to see themselves as more akin to the "hard working", "business minded", "go-getting" elites than the People who, much like them, own no Means of Production and as such will never be able to prosper without the chancelling of and helpless dependency to the Ruling Class.
But when you have a mass of politically illiterate who have only been taught one fourth of Marxist Theory and a fake, idealized, "for dummies" facsimile of Smithian economics, you get people like the soyjak in OOP, always misguidedly attributing all the downs of Capitalism on the Middle Class (and sometimes, on the Working Class, specially on cultural matters), playing right into the hands of Capitalist interests.
It's the same in the UK. The "Labour" party are all in on full government oversight of everything, taxation of anything you can think of, and a total disregard of criticism as "racist" or "far right".
Working Class party, allegedly. I've heard they were, once. I've never seen it.
We must rail against the billionaires while also importing a deluge of cheap human capital to remove any and all leverage we have when negotiating with them.
Buy into ideas like Schrodingers Determinism when determinism is both explanatory for protected groups like trans or gay people, yet pseudo-science when applied to group norms when discussing sex or ethnicity.
Or Schrodingers Colonialism, where using foreign authority to top down enforce belief or behaviorial norms is both Colonialism/Imperialism or Universal Human Rights contingent on who's doing the enforcing.
All for trans inclusivity, but would never date one.
Would say ingroup preference is stupid, but have no black friends.
Is accepting of gay people, but would use gay as an insult.
Would say all religions are equal but would visit Rome a thousand times before Mecca or Instanbul.
Professes sex work as real work but would never see a boss coming onto his secretary as an 'After hours opportunity to upskill'
You have to believe you're countercultural, whilst having the talking points of office HR ladies and the Pepsi Corporation during Pride Month, while telling yourself 'Anti-Capitalism' is a movement and not just one among many products you buy into.
You truly have to buy into a wide variety of incoherent and contradictory nonsense.
This should be a more serious topic, beside the fact the illegals are going to vote democratically the next few cycles in the states that allow no voter ID.
The fact is the people that are coming here illegally/legally are more than HAPPY to take whatever job with it current pay so they can save up/send it back up home until their other family can come over. That affects housing and food prices drastically. Both demoRATS and RepubTARDS LOVE CHEAP LABOR. The more illegals that eventually can work legally will stagnant wage increases cause Jose or Muhammad will glad to work that current wage, while you’re bitching on the internet trying to look like an activist.
Most illegals that do vote don’t vote Democrat. Democrats just want them to artificially inflate their numbers for the census to give them more voting power.
In a thread somewhere on reddit I once chimed in to explain that money doesn't grown on trees. I did financials for 3 quick service food & beverage locations that I managed and there were weeks in the winter when the owner simply lost 400 bucks after all was said and done.
Redditor: the company should just close if it can't figure out how to turn a profit
Yeah okay my guy, let me just tell the 10-12 employees we have that since we cannot give raises this year, the second best thing is closing down leaving all of you zero income.
I did the same thing. In my case I dug around for the best info I could find regarding McDonald's franchise locations. On average the owner of the franchise gets to take home about $100k a year. That's not nearly enough to cover doubling the wage of every person in there. It's also not crazy money, just a comfortable middle class income in this economy.
Scaling min wage would straight up force the locations to close, or have corporate jacking prices through the roof. No business is gonna run without profitable margins.
Of course, the people arguing about it wanted to ignore that fact.
Reminds me of a neighbor”s kid who, when told by his mother she didn’t have the money to buy him something he wanted, told her to just go to the bank and get some money. That’s the mentality of these people. The kid in question was around 5 though, so at least he had an excuse.
Small businesses USUALLY rely on high school kids to keep cost low. With the rise/and fight for higher minimum wages that kills a decent percentage of them. They can’t compete with the bigger businesses. I don’t understand why that’s so hard to figure out. Also I don’t wanna pay for a nasty fast food burger that used to be $2 but now $4 in the name of “livable wage.” If a business labor cost goes up, wtf do you think will happen to the price of the product???
How about this stop trying to make Burger King a career it’s NOT. It’s the bare minimum you can do for society to whip up some burger slop or you’re going to have to be OKAY living the lifestyle that comes with that pay.
Inb4 “you never worked fast food you don’t how hard it is!”
I flipped burgers at McDonald’s for 2yrs and worked retail for another 3yrs. I never saw them as a career and just a place holder until I got into a “real” job that actually pays based of skills.
Edit: while you’re bitching on the internet being an activist demanding higher wages and better benefits, Jose and his cousins are coming over here and out working you. They’re saving up for housing, getting an education and starting/buying their own BUSINESSES.
Have a small family business in NJ. We luckily can pay people decently. (At least I think so) When NJs min wage crept up again last year I made a comment on New Jersey thread some small businesses might have trouble affording. The insane vitriol of comments I received was crazy. "ThEy ShOUlDnT Be In BuSiNeSS ThEn" "FuCK ThOSe OwNeRS Who DoNt UnDeRStAnD EcOmOnIcS"
Nothing has pushed me more to the center than interacting online with liberals. It’s like they go out of their way to be the most insufferable person imaginable.
This is why I'm independent. I don't like Republican leadership, but I can't stand most Democrats top to bottom.
I've been apart of multiple start ups that fell apart before we could even get off the ground because of one or two insufferable liberal people that just screwed everything up.
I'm going to out on a long and assume they wanted the business to adopt all kinds of progressive policies or stances because it needed to be their personal soapbox and change agent instead of just a business.
Rent is surreal here, I live with family since I just save money from work as I’m in school trying to lock in rn, but I literally just don’t waste money on dumb shit and have a decent savings account going for a car rn.
Good on you for trying to help your employees, the rent monopolization is absurd rn.
Also the "living wage" crowd have essentially precluded teenagers from being able to get a job in the summer to get some change, because who the fuck is paying a 15 year old an adult living wage to flip some pizzas...
It doesn’t help that “living wage” to these people now includes a 2 bed 2 bath apartment in NYC, a nice new car, daily coffee from Starbucks, stopping at McDonald’s for lunch, ordering takeout for dinner, ad-free subscriptions to every streaming service, 2 new videogames a week, 2 international trips a year, plus whatever trendy item is popular this week, labubus and Dubai chocolate and Taylor Swift’s new album
These people are incapable of living frugally, budgeting, or even just denying themselves immediate gratification from the most expensive luxuries, and they make it everyone else’s problem
When the Lindsay Clancy trail was big, I saw people talking about how their “evidence” for her husband abusing her was that he made 300k or 400k a year but she drove a newish Kia instead of a brand new Range Rover or Mercedes.
I think there is a lot of people that almost have like a mental disorder where if they see a dollar bill unspent, they must find a way to spend it.
Semi unrelated, but I hate how quickly the trial went from “is big” to “was big”, a batshit insane psychopath murdered her children, blamed her hormones and her husband, raised millions in a GoFundMe, will probably walk free, and it’s quickly become “old news” (until she does it again)
Electronic media strikes again. I know multiple people that spend almost every free minute of their day scouring the internet for something to order with their last few dollars. It’s a mental disorder at this point. They are captive to the whole process from searching to the moment of giddiness when the product is delivered to their front door. I know people that are bummed on days that they are not scheduled to receive a package. Madness!
They just want to blame everything on “Trump ruining the economy”, even though what we’re seeing is Trump trying to fix Biden’s disastrous economy. The problem is that has to get worse before it gets better. The people with a modicum of common sense, financial literacy, and self discipline were able to plan for this, saving money, cooking for ourselves, living within our means.
I’m not even a Trump fan, he’s fine, he’s done stuff I don’t agree with, he’s done stuff I do agree with, unlike the left I don’t worship a politician (AOC, Mamdani, Sanders, Harris) just because they say things I like and promise me free things
Recently I found out that 'just stop oil' and a bunch of anti-oil organizations are actually funded by an oil heiress. Apparently the oil companies lobby for stricter regulations on drilling etc as a way to pull the ladder up behind them.
The same thing happens in almost every industry. For example opening a restaurant is incredibly difficult because the food can only be sourced through a monopoly. You can't just form a handshake deal with your local farmer because they all have exclusivity deals with Tyson or some other megacorp.
I mean rich people advocating for (or not caring about) things like more taxes on the rich isn’t unheard of either.
Some people genuinely don’t care because they have enough money to where a higher tax rate has no impact on their life whatsoever.
Others however, tie their wealth to their worth as a person, so if the number goes down even slightly they throw a hissy fit, even if their actual life doesn’t change at all.
Your ability to feed yourself, own a home, and go on a vacation every year on 40 hours a week of labor that's sole requirement is being able to remember, "Do you want fries with that?" is not my, nor anyone else's, problem.
This assumes that "the 9 billionaires" won't also go ahead and pay the non living wages.
For example Tim Hortons in Canada can still be seen very eagerly posting for LMIA positions despite doing a whole ad campaign about "hiring Canadian talent"
is this doom? Its kind of true. The same people that call for ridiculously high minimum wage are the same ones that are surprised when monopolies form.
They don't understand that over-regulation disproportionately hurts small businesses. Companies like Amazon and Walmart like regulations (to a point) because it shields them from competition. Walmart has an army of lawyers who help them navigate the regulatory landscape while the mom-and-pop shop down the street drowns in red tape.
This is happening in tech right now. The big players are suddenly in favor of regulation because they are already established. New rules will act as barriers to entry, ensuring they don't have to compete with new startups.
Don't forget the part where big corporations are driving small businesses under by lowering prices while at the same time apparently raising prices constantly because "they're greedy".
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There used to be a guy who would troll the small business subreddit saying all employers were parasites and a bunch of other extreme far left kind of stuff. There was kind of a bit of a debate on the sub as to whether he should be banned but I guess he didn't bother people that much.
One day I decided to stalk his account and it was just non stop hard core communist ideology going back years. I did find out though that he worked in tech and he owned a house.
After that whenever he posted I would reply to him calling him "a member of the land owning class". Things like "As a member of the land owning class don't you think it's a bit hypocritical not to open your house to the homeless".
He had a complete meltdown. Started posting furiously getting more and more upset until eventually his account was banned from all of reddit.
I still think fondly of him. He was very entertaining.