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Oh, that poor "deprived" and "abused" Walmart corporation!

PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
Revoltingest said:
Of course.
But it's fun to respond in kind at times.

They could've.
But that would encourage theft, making the problem worse.
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No it wouldn't. No one would even know. And if they wanted to discourage such theft, they could have set up their own food pantry to feed the "would-be thieves". But that would fly in the face of the Walmart corporation's purpose: to make as much money as possible regardless of how it effects anyone else. GREED: the real corporate purpose. It's not 'fair trade', not 'socially responsible commerce', not even 'free enterprise'. But; "we screw everyone out of everything we can get from them, because we can't ever get enough".
Revoltingest said:
You think that if one has so much, they should tolerate being stolen from?
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No, I think they should give away what they don't really need so that no one will need to steal it from them. I believe that the proper definition of "wealth" is the ability to be generous, not the ability to buy anything one wants and screw everyone else.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
sooda said:
How awful... They surely don't count as "exceptional Americans".
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And Im noticing its not really that much cheaper here. More so than I thought/remembered (gas is only about 50 cents/gallon cheaper here, but about 50 cents more than the rest of the MidWest). And wages are staggeringly low here.
 
Cooky

Cooky

Veteran Member
PureX said:
No it wouldn't. No one would even know. And if they wanted to discourage such theft, they could have set up their own food pantry to feed the "would-be thieves". But that would fly in the face of the Walmart corporation's purpose: to make as much money as possible regardless of how it effects anyone else. GREED: the real corporate purpose. It's not 'fair trade', not 'socially responsible commerce', not even 'free enterprise'. But; "we screw everyone out of everything we can get from them, because we can't ever get enough".
No, I think they should give away what they don't really need so that no one will need to steal it from them. I believe that the proper definition of "wealth" is the ability to be generous, not the ability to buy anything one wants and screw everyone else.
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As a wealthy individualist, I resent that remark. My money is mine. I don't care about what anyone else does with theirs though. Or if you steal from them, not my prob.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
PureX said:
No it wouldn't. No one would even know.
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Tell me how this works.
The see the theft....
Do they ignore it immediately?
Do perform a means test to determine whether to allow the theft or not?
Does the court have the job of means testing?
You think word of all this would not get around?
And if they wanted to discourage such theft, they could have set up their own food pantry to feed the "would-be thieves". But that would fly in the face of the Walmart corporation's purpose: to make as much money as possible regardless of how it effects anyone else. GREED: the real corporate purpose. It's not 'fair trade', not 'socially responsible commerce', not even 'free enterprise'. But; "we screw everyone out of everything we can get from them, because we can't ever get enough".
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Funny....when I've shopped at Walmart, we've always exchanged money for goods.
This is your idea of "greed" & getting screwed over?

Charity towards our fellow man does not end theft.
I'm in business. I've experienced this first hand.
No good goes unpunished.
No, I think they should give away what they don't really need so that no one will need to steal it from them. I believe that the proper definition of "wealth" is the ability to be generous, not the ability to buy anything one wants and screw everyone else.
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You have the right to open a store & give away the excess.
But you shouldn't demand this of others.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Stanyon said:
Do you think some of it may be that fruits and vegetables typically have a very limited shelf life and may encourage insects, rodents, etc?
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Did you read that its done in some places? And the food at the food bank here, its loaded with HFCS, sodium, simple carbs, and is overall foods that will wreck health if thats all that is consumed. Fruit is good, but canned fruit in heavy syrups arent really even healthy anymore at that point.
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
Landon Caeli said:
As a wealthy individualist, I resent that remark. My money is mine. I don't care about what anyone else does with theirs though. Or if you steal from them, not my prob.
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Sorry, but that's just foolishness. Your money is absolutely worthless unless everyone else agrees to honor it as having value. What you think you "own" is just a mutual fantasy agreed to by the humans you share this planet with. You have NOTHING without their inter-dependent participation. And yet you imagine that you are some sort of materialistic autonomous island. That's just complete nonsense. And t's just a foolish excuse to dismiss your human-to-human responsibility to everyone else around you.

This is the kind of toxic insanity that our current "greed is a virtue" culture promotes and endorses.
 
Cooky

Cooky

Veteran Member
PureX said:
Sorry, but that's just foolishness. Your money is absolutely worthless unless everyone else agrees to honor it as having value. What you think you "own" is just a mutual fantasy agreed to by the humans you share this planet with. You have NOTHING without their inter-dependent participation. And yet you imagine that you are some sort of materialistic autonomous island. That's just complete nonsense. And t's just a foolish excuse to dismiss your human-to-human responsibility to everyone else around you.

This is the kind of toxic insanity that our current "greed is a virtue" culture promotes and endorses.
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...As long as it suits me. The extent of my compassion ends at the outermost layer of my own skin.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
PureX said:
Of course you will.
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Thats not how it works. You cite about 150 minutes of video but provide no summary, no points mentioned, nor why we should even watch it. Thats not how debate works, and is proper to at least summarize the content (ad with cited journals, articles, newspaper clippings, audio, video). It is generally acknowledged that it is your responsibility to do so.
 
Audie

Audie

Veteran Member
PureX said:
Or, as with food, medicine, shoes, clothes: "I need them, but have no money to buy them with, so I took them". But I guess in your world this situation never happens, so it must never be happening in anyone else's world, either. Or if it is happening, it must be their fault, somehow, so they should just suck it up and suffer the consequences.

On the other hand, Walmart could simply have chosen not to press the charge. But greed couldn't allow that. Every penny matters when you're a multi-billionaire. Because there is no such thing as "I have enough money, now", or, "I can afford to share a little".
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You just make things up.
Those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution (any family making $394,000 or more in 2015) provide about a third of all charitable dollars given in the U.S. When it comes to bequests, the rich are even more important: the wealthiest 1.4 percent of Americans are responsible for 86 percent of the charitable ...
 
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