Cancel culture goes after Walmart

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@Smyrna

Thank you for the post. I partially disagree with your analysis. If Walmart created millions of jobs, they did so at the expense of the jobs that were lost because…now look at your last sentence…they didn’t pay their employees and put those businesses that did, out of business. Production, where everyone benefits is one thing but production at the expense of something else must be looked at regarding the net. It’s just like Amazon today. I’ve expressed to my wife that she is to not EVER buy me anything from Amazon. I’d rather pay more, do my business locally and know that…what goes around, comes around and that’s how I live my life.

I sell cars and work to have the highest average gross possible but…also…at the same time, consider the depreciation to the customer when they go over the curb? It’s the net that separates good auto people from the rest.

We also avoid amazon. Cancelled prime etc…

Re: the first paragraph…I don’t know…you’re kind of sounding like a softie lib…Walmart put people out of business? Shouldn’t those people have worked harder, and bootstraped their way up to prosperity?

Mind you, I don’t agree with that, but that is always the line I hear from conseravtives when we discuss helping americans get by.

And in a capialist system, there is ALWAYS losers. Production where everyone benefits doesn’t exist. The push and pull of supply and demand and competition means someone is always doing better.

But anyway, we are getting far afield from my central point which is, nothing wrong with having a nation of service sector workers instead of facotry workers. We just need to be sure the corps that hire them bear the full cost of the labor by paying them a living wage.

This benefits everyone. The employee has a better life, uses less governement safety nets, which costs us less money, the corp has happier employees who then will be more producive, the competition isn’t disadvantaged by cut throat wage practices…we’re all better for it.