Here’s the Premier, saying NSW is ‘open for business’. Actually most social activity will now re-open, but…
Here’s the Premier, saying NSW is ‘open for business’. Actually most social activity will now re-open, but it’s revealing that his first thought is business. NSW is run by business, for business, you’d have to be blind to not see it. But…/1 #auspol #covid19aus #nswpol https://t.co/Ta76IjnDZ8
…what is ‘business’? Business is one of those terms, like ‘the Economy’, that rolls off all of our tongues. We just assume these are things. Actually ‘business’ is a social activity, like everything else, not a separate activity. Utterly reliant upon social life. And further…/2
…while it’s of course true that businesses are legal entities with a certain structure, do they actually exist? By which I mean, without customers, would we have businesses? Obviously not. Businesses go broke, they fold, without customers. 50-75% of businesses…/3
…in Australia fold inside 5 years of being set up. This isn’t semantics, look at the debates over stimulus payments, should they go to ‘business’, or to customers of businesses? Modern conservatives overwhelmingly say the former. Empirical evidence show the latter to be…/4
…orders of magnitude more effective. As with the Economy, let’s be blunt - ‘business’ isn’t a thing. There are just customers. There are businessES, sure, but those are just mechanisms for servicing the needs of customers. People with (or without) money. When a conservative…/5
…advocates for ‘business’, it’s identical to them advocating for ‘the Economy’. They’re constructs designed to rationalise the interests of those who are socio-economically advantaged. Stimulus payments will go to established businesses, not to customers - existing interests. /6
Jobs don’t flow from doing that, because jobs come from customers. People spending money. Two chicken and egg questions: can a business survive without customers? Can a customer survive without a business? Answering those will tell you which is actually real./ end