• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, although I’m not sure why they’re calling Nokia a small business. They’re a publicly traded corporation and my searching tells me their revenue last year was $25 billion.

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      10 months ago

      I was a bit surprised by that statement as well. When someone says “small business,” the first thing I think of is a mom and pop shop.

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        10 months ago

        I’m not sure about ‘online small business’ either. Most of the ones that are not actual corporations are selling via Amazon or eBay or Etsy, so you’re still supporting megacorporations. If you’re lucky, your town still has small businesses you can support with prices you can afford.

        And that last part is a big part of the problem. The person above says you might not get very price competitive products. When so many people live paycheck-to-paycheck, you have no choice but to get the most price competitive products.

        Consumers should not be shouldering the blame here.

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          10 months ago

          I agree with you. Also, even small local businesses often support the systems that are at the root of the problem. I’m not going out of my way to shop at the local grocery store when the owners are actively harming my community by expressing and supporting all manner of bigotry.

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            10 months ago

            At the farmers’ market in a nearby town, there’s a big to-do because a white supremacist farm opened a stall there and the farmers’ market is allowing it. It even resulted in a second farmers market forming. It’s ridiculous. They should kick the Nazis the fuck out of their farmers’ market.

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              10 months ago

              It’s a really hard concept for some people that by inviting people like Nazis to the table, they are de facto excluding marginalized groups. For people not in one of these groups, I think it takes an effort to understand why that is.

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      10 months ago

      I read it as

      small ones, or even bigger ones like Nokia

      So I think it’s not saying that Nokia is small, but that Nokia is not in the same category as the few big big corporations.

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      10 months ago

      they’re very underrepresented in the phone market atm. the company behind it is huge, but the phones are very customer conscious.

      not a small business at all, but still.