"There's a spectre of Communism haunting New York."- Mohammed Kalam Maqsood.
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So if it’s city owned it’s bad because any profits would go back to the city. But if it private owned it’s good because the profits go to a few rich people? I must be missing something
I think that the problem is you’re looking at this from a reasonable perspective.
In fact you could do one better - it doesn't need to make a profit, just break even, so you could either have lower prices, helping the community save money, or higher wages, helping the community spend money. But since it helps most people instead of a few people, it's bad according to capitalism.
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If you're inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:
These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn't possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.
(Not saying I agree.)
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"Won't somebody think off the job creators?" they'll unironically tell you after laying off thousands of people.
Yes but if it‘s city owned, the profits won‘t go towards exploitation of (mostly) non-white laborers and dismantling the social system. Just think of how many humanitarian aid programs could be defunded and how much the environment could be stripped of its resources if we let the private sector maximize their profits!
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Won't that just drive business to the city-owned stores? Sounds like he's trying to help!
Nice of the billionaire to vacate perfect real estate for city owned grocery stores
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I mean, sure, that's very funny, but please don't help feed the right-wing lie falsely equating democratic socialism with communism.
To be clear, all socialism, communism included, is democratic. "Democratic Socialism" just refers to reformist socialism, in most cases, or is used to make social democracy seem more appealing. Mamdani has expressed support for more radical groups online, though, so it's clear that he isn't just your typical social democrat at minimum.
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Why? Maybe if people understand that what they are scared with to be "communism" is affordable housing, public transport and education and not being harassed by police, they will break out of the propaganda alltogether.
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Good. And while you're at it close all your other stores, fucking parasite.
Fuck him. They raise prices if people vote for a Democrat. They raise prices if people vote for a Republican.
All the while depending on a system based on obfuscation of the fact that a large portion of the time a worker labors for is unpaid.
Closeted fearful European supremacists, lol. So what if everyone who looks like you and is in power is a liar, a thief and often a sex-pest? Just disassociate from them and pick someone because of their character! :D
Seize his stores then. The city can run them for the people.
My 5D chess move would be:
- Go: ok bet, you wanna shut it down? Your stores are now in immediate administration under some eminent domain law
- In order to mitigate political backlash, make it known that they're able to sell their business to someone else, or the city, provided that the subsequent owner is bound to either run it, or sell it to the city
Watch them get mad because you haven't technically seized it, they can still sell the business (maintaining the sacrosanct rights to private property capitalists love so much), you've just prevented them from closing it down, and everyone gets to keep their jobs :)
If a billionaire grocer has decided it's not worth the effort to build a grocery store for a community, why would they be upset that the state fills in the gaps left by them? Be reasonable.
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Lol.
Capitalist leech says he'll willingly lose capital.
Liiiiiiiiiiar.
The dollar is holy to these freaks. They won't jeopardize a single one.
Oh no /s
Its always the same excuses with these mfers. Do it, we dont care. Take your family and go to africa or russia. Most of the assets however belong, rightfully so, to the society that created them.
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Call his fucking bluff. The only way anything would close is if it isn't profitable (enough). And if they can't turn a profit, well then they need to be better at business! (/s).
Close it and let the city run it.
It sounds like a great plan, this way there will be plenty of nice store locations available for these state own groceries store.
Didn't starbucks do something like this where they just shut a store down the moment it got unionized?
Probably, it's super common as a union busting tactic. Because once labor is organized you can't really put that cat back in the bag.
More reason to boycott starbucks
Welcome cheap and wholesome cooperative
Nice of him to make way for the worker owned stores
Gettin pretty real sick of the class war waged by billionaires against the rest of us. Every one of those wackos on cable news reactionary outlets who went REEEEEEEEEEEEE over the results need to be hunted down like the rabid feral pigs they are.
Gristedes is an expensive yuppie supermarket chain like Whole Foods, in some rich areas. I don't think they have to worry about some city-run stores in underserved neighborhoods. It's just pouting.
Bullshit, billionaires are too greedy and morally bankrupt to leave exploited money on the table.
They won't close the highest producing stores and effectively kill a revenue stream out of conviction in something that isn't money, because if they had any beliefs or values above "gimme gimme gimme moar moar moar" they wouldn't be billionaires.
It's not a matter of not needing it, no shit, they have a socially encouraged mental illness.
It would be better for the new socialist stores if they did vacate the market, but they won't. They'll even pull a Walmart and try to do some loss leaders to convince idiots that der free merket menes lower prices for as long as they can stomach it until they find a vector to make the state stores illegal and Jack those prices back up forever.
Do it. Someone will fill the gap in the market.
Aldi and Trader Joes will gladly take over all their locations. Those Germans don't care about Red and Blue.
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