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Your argument is effectively everything is OK as long as you’re not told.
The bottom line is that small business and consumers have a responsibility as well.
Instead this treatment is a fact of life. We can complain or we can change it.
The HN community complains about this sort of thing often but has been pretty unanimous in being anti-collective bargaining and anti-government intervention.
If you’re not willing to advocate for change but instead complain, why should we pity you.
1. Build your own infrastructure
2. Build your own platform
3. Or change your environment through advocacy
May I suggest that a more effective response than “I shed no tears for them,” would be “And this is precisely why we need more collective action and regulation. I encourage you to contact your representative about the bill HR 123...”
You should really try to reduce dependencies. Have a look into passive computing and selling to higher animals, maybe?
And for Etsy - well the usual play with these sorts of things is you use them for marketing then get the customer after they make a purchase to start using your real shop running on your own domain.
This is not rocket science.
You don’t like the fact that big companies abuse consumers, small businesses, and their employees, you can vote or collectively organize for change.
The HN community rails against unionization and collective bargaining often but loves to complain when a policy change like this occurs.
Make it make sense.
> You don't like Etsy policies go elsewhere.
But "if you don't like [company X's] policies go elsewhere" isn't always viable from a business standpoint, right? I don't know how close Etsy gets to monopoly in their niches, but there's probably a measurable advantage to being there -- customers who, when they're thinking of buying some (theoretically) handmade arts and crafts-ish knickknack, go straight to Etsy and browse specific categories and keywords.