I don’t see a problem with multi-use zoning or living above your store, no. My town has an immigrant family that’s running a “department store” of various kinds of secondhand junk out of their barn, and they’re not the problem here. They’ve got everything from used clothing to tractor parts, and I’d much rather have stores like that than having to go to Tractor Supply.
Sure, it could be done unethically, but I don’t think there’s any intrinsic evil about it.
Let me quote from the first link stabby_cicada posted earlier in the thread:
Enemies of communism say that communists want to take small farms away from the women and men who worked so hard to keep them going for so many years and put small grocers, tailors and carpenters out of business and deny them an independent living.
Capitalism has already put most of these small operators out of business and made wage slaves of them, destroying their dreams of independent prosperity. Wal-Mart and Target routinely put small retailers out of business. Giant agribusiness conglomerates mow down small farms every week. Supermarket chains have wiped out the corner grocer, and corporate bookstores like Barnes & Noble are responsible for the destruction of small book shops. The few small businesses that remain live precariously on the edge of an abyss, with whole families sometimes working long hours to compete.
I don’t see a problem with multi-use zoning or living above your store, no. My town has an immigrant family that’s running a “department store” of various kinds of secondhand junk out of their barn, and they’re not the problem here. They’ve got everything from used clothing to tractor parts, and I’d much rather have stores like that than having to go to Tractor Supply.
Sure, it could be done unethically, but I don’t think there’s any intrinsic evil about it.
but is that “personal property” or not?
Let me quote from the first link stabby_cicada posted earlier in the thread: