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When business partners struggle to align progressive values with practice

My business partner and I both consider ourselves progressive but when it comes to how we treat our employees and set wages and benefits we keep compromising in ways that feel like we're just replicating the same capitalist structures we say we're against.

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The constraints of operating within capitalist systems can force ethical compromises that reveal tensions between ideological commitments and material realities.

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