Where'd we be without them, eh?Thank goodness for your personal anecdotes.
I see many Walmarts in me travels.
Do you disagree with my observation that Walmart
typically serves as an anchor for aggregations of stores?
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Where'd we be without them, eh?Thank goodness for your personal anecdotes.
We've already established quite some time ago that any amount of social welfare is still capitalism, remember?The upshot...
I'd rather be exploited by capitalism than by socialism.
Hmmm....you just contradicted a known fact.I dislike answers that directly contradict known facts, but since you've told me that you just don't ever read links that are posted....
How is it false?FALSE DILEMMA ALERT !!!!!
Where'd we be without them, eh?
I see many Walmarts in me travels.
Do you disagree with my observation that Walmart
typically serves as an anchor for aggregations of stores?
That's not how I'd phrase it, but I do see social welfareWe've already established quite some time ago that any amount of social welfare is still capitalism, remember?
You even brought out a dictionary to prove it.
How is it false?
To prefer capitalism to socialism is a reasonable preference.
Or is this one of those situations where you're using strange
personal definitions of each?
If one ignores personal observations, then one couldWhere would we be without them (personal anecdotes)? Hmmm... we'd have a society improved by the use of math and statistics?
That's business, ie, some survive competition, while others fail.As for the anchor phenomenon (a Freudian slip perhaps? ), as was stated earlier, yes a certain subset of businesses will cluster around a Walmart. But many others will go under when Walmart comes to town.
Including labor rights, minimum wages and such, correct?That's not how I'd phrase it, but I do see social welfare
programs fueled by a capitalist economy as a optimal.
And yet, people complain about small businesses "dying" as if that was a bad thing.That's business, ie, some survive competition, while others fail.
This is useful.
Now, imagine if the job market actually was a market in the same sense as markets for goods and services are.
Then increased demand would drive up prices until supply and demand are in equilibrium.
It's interesting how capitalists don't seem to understand such basic concepts as supply and demand, don't you think?
I favor heath & safety regulation, but not wage regulation.Including labor rights, minimum wages and such, correct?
People do like their complaints.And yet, people complain about small businesses "dying" as if that was a bad thing.
That's business, ie, some survive competition, while others fail.
This is useful.
Do you have any "math & statistics" to show me?
By the way, I'm curious, when you post links in a thread, do you ever expect people to read through them?
You should hear what Walmart says about you.Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Walmart has not been "useful" to our economy. Walmart is a parasitic corporation that has a overall negative effect on our economy.
You argued against my observation.You've been provided with links in this very thread.
I don't know where you live but we have a Albertsons directly across the street from Walmart. We prefer Albertsons grocery items (even though they are more expensive) over Walmart and we go to the local butcher shop for some of our meat; although Albertsons has excellent meat. Also we earn gasoline points at Albertsons which really helps with the cost of gasoline when we don't have a reason to go to Costco. In addition we have numerous grocery stores within a 5-10 mile radius (of course it is 8 miles into town for us)I'm curious how you imagine a community that relies on a limited amount of supermarkets in their vicinity decides to "just not shop there".
Where do you imagine these people would get their food from? Do you know of any examples where people set up their own private food distribution network without relying on a new market chain setting up shop in their neighbourhood?
Aye, how many posts do we endure where someone says....In fairness, I can kind of understand where @Revoltingest is coming from on this point, at least when it comes to the posting of links or videos. If I can, I usually try to post key excerpts or give a brief summary as to the subject matter, since more than a few people are put off by links to long articles or long videos.
This is more like Short Attention-Span Theater.
This is just an anecdote!I don't know where you live but we have a Albertsons directly across the street from Walmart. We prefer Albertsons grocery items (even though they are more expensive) over Walmart and we go to the local butcher shop for some of our meat; although Albertsons has excellent meat. Also we earn gasoline points at Albertsons which really helps with the cost of gasoline when we don't have a reason to go to Costco. In addition we have numerous grocery stores within a 5-10 mile radius (of course it is 8 miles into town for us)