One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting'

Re:One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting' by fortran77 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:40AM (#24316008)

The author of 'In Defense of Looting' seems to think only the Government can create jobs, so small businesses are irrelevant. She thinks it's a "Republican Myth"

> . It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that's actually a right-wing myth.

See also this twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1299538728432541701

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Re:One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting' by HarryHirsch on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:26AM (#24316326)

This was in the context or worker protection, which in small businesses is not great. Just consider the praise of overwork in startups on this webforum. Foodservice is orders of magnitudes worse.

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Re:One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting' by Ambol on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:55AM (#24316114)

Gives credence to the voices saying that the protests final goal is to centralize the economy into a few huge companies with government overview.

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Re:One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting' by salawat on Saturday August 29, 2020 @01:02PM (#24317534)

I've been complaining about the Hobbesian/Hamiltonian elephant in the room for years.

Is a Jeffersonian/Locke-ian society really that much to ask for?

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Re:One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting' by banmeagaindan2 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:28PM (#24319858)

What is the right wing version of this by NPR?

The WSJ interviewing the author of a book applauding vigilantes?

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