This article is about downfall of WeWork CEO, but it also hints its criticisms at charismatic “charlatan CEOs” duping the world today
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businessinsider.comPosted Sep 30, 2019, 8:58 AM UTC
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businessinsider.comThis really gets to the heart of why capitalism is failing us right now. So long as it remains unregulated, actual entrepreneurs and Main Street will continue to suffer.
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Main Street? Is that like the everyman's equivalent of Wall Street
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Yep, basically small businesses and regular workers.
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I feel like people who push this line that small businesses are somehow better than big businesses are either a) a small business owner themselves, or b) have very little actual job experience.
Like, if you genuinely think that small businesses are better for workers, you've either never worked for a small business, or you've worked for exactly one and you don't understand that the sweet old man who runs Al's Gas Station isn't representative.
Small business owners are not friends to workers. They have far more in common with big business owners - which they all ultimately want to be, after all - than they do with workers. Don't make the mistake of thinking that their interests are aligned with worker interests. (Unless you are in fact a small business owner, in which case you're not making any such mistake, you're just lying to workers.)
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I feel like people who push this line that small businesses are somehow better than big businesses are either a) a small business owner themselves, or b) have very little actual job experience.
I feel like you didn’t bother to read the article.
The whole discussion is about monopolies and why that’s terrible for consumers, not big business vs small business. Capitalists are pumping billions of dollars into companies with the hope that they’ll undercut the market regardless of how good their product might be. They then have a monopoly on the market.
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I've worked for two small businesses and two big corporations in my recent career. The small businesses were awful, mostly because of the egos of the founder/owner/manager who insisted on everything being done his way even when the business was too large for him to manage effectively by himself.
... hey, I guess Tesla really does have "small business culture"!
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Capitialism has always been failing us...
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Can’t argue there.
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Piss off, you sideline-sitting little whiner.
Go drive a Tesla or check out Starship on the pad.
You're the charlatan.
Musk and friends get it done, pissant.
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I found Kevin Durant
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Where?
Oh you mean Kevin Durant doesn't like sideline-sitting whiners either?
You really want to be this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xaQu3uP6VA
Don't be that guy.
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I’m saying he’s known to post salty bullshit
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Well Durant is probably cursed with being smart and talented and doesn't like being sniped at by those who ain't none or neither.
It's Teddy Time!
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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o look... a smallminded, pissed off 'believer' who is to dumb to actually think.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/with-wework-theranos-line-between-charm-and-fraud-doesnt-exist-2019-9
Should have posted this instead, a direct critique on Tesla overpromising, under performing to get cheap capital.