• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Tie it to the GDP and […] and buy local.

    I’m gonna need the receipts on that crazy orthogonal linkage. Be sure to stress how paying a local guy I don’t know for employing a dozen locals is better than paying a remote guy I don’t know for employing a dozen locals.

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      4 months ago

      “Buy local” is “buy small business”, as in not large scale corporations who continually abuse whatever means possible to minimize pay for employees while reaping the biggest rewards.

      Not “this person who has 12 employees vs that person who has 12 employees”, but “buy from this person with 12 employees, not that company with more than 2 million employees and tops the list of employees on Medicare and food stamps”.

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        4 months ago

        The store I go to employs 12 of my neighbours. I don’t go to the one the next town over, nor the metro. I don’t care whether they have the same owner as this one. They cease to be part of the equation.

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      4 months ago

      When I say “local” I mean not outsourced to foreign investors, businesses, and production, or to a series of off shore shell corporations used to dodge federal taxes.

      I don’t mean, “you should buy from Jeff’s Store, because his business is within 2 1/2 miles, fuck Jerry’s Store because he ships out of Iowa.”

      Jerry is your neighbor. It doesn’t matter if he lives on the other side of the country.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Gee. Fuck me for using the DICTIONARY form of the word ‘local’ instead of a recursive definition which includes “local enough but not too local”.

        Wait until the cement cures and those goalposts will be great in their new spot.