More than Wal-Mart - Page 2

AhabtheArab · 10-06-2006, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Green Arrow

Wal-Mart is a symbiote though, Wal-Mart profits from selling things at a cheap price, however, Wal-Mart doesn't make those things. Untill Wal-Mart starts buying our record companies, football teams, and other industries. Wal-Mart is big but not unstoppable.

Walmart is gona destory america they get everyting of cheap workers in China and shit and then reep benefits.

Feslin · 10-06-2006, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by AhabtheArab

Walmart is gona destory america they get everyting of cheap workers in China and shit and then reep benefits.

You need to understand the economics of the situation. Should Wal-Mart go in and pay 50 cents a day, or they not go in and those same workers get paid 20 cents a day?

It's not like they're forced to work there at gunpoint.

Green Arrow · 10-06-2006, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Feslin

It's not like they're forced to work there at gunpoint.

Feslin · 10-06-2006, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Green Arrow

So what do you recommend we do?

Green Arrow · 10-06-2006, 03:03 AM

I reccomend the goverment get off it's lazyass, stop wasting our hard-earned money on stupid wars and other insane projects, and take our money to trample these multibillion dollar coporations and force them to loosen thier grip over the free market. A truly free market isn't one controlled by a handful of elite forces, it's one with many small, nearly equal competitive shops. Republicans worry about inflation, but if we don't do something about Time Warner, Wal-Mart, and a slew of other monopolies soon, we'll have more then just inflation to worry about. Inflation+an unliveable wage=dead. Or atleast you'll wish you were..

Feslin · 10-06-2006, 03:07 AM

1; If we trampled these corporations, they would get less money over there.
2; A free market is unregulated by government, trampling a corporation is regulation.

Green Arrow · 10-06-2006, 04:13 AM

Oh how silly of me, to regulate a market would keep the tyrannical coporate dogs from choking our freedom and self-worth, we ceartainly cannot have that.

The goverment exsists as an insturment of the people, therfore it's the job of the goverment to do the people's will, and the will of the people is we crash these huge coporation's party! I'm tired of sitting idoly by while big coporations abuse the working class..

davideyoung · 10-06-2006, 04:40 AM

When Walmart came to Lemon Grove, CA, it saved the economy. Ma and pa businesses were running out of customers, and money in the neighborhood was scarce. Then Walmart came. Now thousands of people shop there every day, and patronize the surrounding businesses as well. Walmart saved dozens of little shops and resteraunts there just by bringing the crowds of shoppers to the neighborhood, and employing hundreds of local workers who also spend money in the neighborhood.

If Walmart had not come, there is a good chance the neighborhood would have a lot of vacancy signs in the store windows right now. I was there to see the transformation, and it is a good thing for the economy all around.

Green Arrow · 10-06-2006, 04:52 AM

Dictators always appear as heroes before they rear thier ugly head. I ask you.. when the market becomes solely dominated by one powerful coporation, what are you going to do if you get fired?

davideyoung · 10-06-2006, 05:25 AM

Since that is nowhere near happening, I can have fun and say exactly what I would do - work for that corperation.

Hundreds of millions of people have places they go to do businesses apart from Walmart. That is not going to change simply because Walmart offers good prices and competitive pay. (Yes, they pay higher wages than most retailers in their industry)

Info: KMart had Super K long before they bought Sears Robuck and Co.