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Re:Bye, Amazon by toasterlovin on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:40PM (#23071677)
> People don’t default to cheating the system.

Some people don't. I think you may be underestimating the degree to which A) your parents were good judges of people, and B) having ownership close to the metal can make things work well.

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Re:Bye, Amazon by luckylion on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:28PM (#23072884)
And being a small business. Things run very differently when there are ten people and you know everyone vs when there are ten thousand people and you only vaguely know what 1/10th of the departments actually do.
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Re:Bye, Amazon by ryanbrunner on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:56PM (#23084204)
If it means that more employer-employee relationships are as strong as the one described, I'm more than happy to give small businesses a leg up over major corporations.
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Re:Bye, Amazon by luckylion on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:55AM (#23088496)
In my experience, it very much does. It's usually not as profitable though, and even laws & taxes are often set up to reward large corporations.
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