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Do you think Wal-Mart is evil?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, November 27, 2005 20:12
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Friday, November 11, 2005 1:25 PM

http://walmartwatch.com/blog/archives/survivial_of_the_fittest/
This link to a (secret) corporate memo seems to show Wal-Mart as a cold, calculating machine that cares less about its' workers than profits.

I don't really see how that makes them a whole lot different than other corporations...

Aren't all corporations just sharks in the economic ocean? Should we be surprised at Wal-Mart's callousness toward it's long-term employees, their least profitable assets?

Are they evil, or just a cold reality of corporate America?

Chrisisall

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:37 PM

Yes. They are evil.

I can't begin to describe why I think they're evil, but Wal mart is evil.

If Wal-Mart is like all corporations, then all corporations are evil, but I don't think thats the case.



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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:47 PM

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Originally posted by citizen:


I can't begin to describe why I think they're evil, but Wal mart is evil.


You're not just saying that because the Firefly dvd's you got there had a big scratch on 'em, are ya?

Chrisisall

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Friday, November 11, 2005 3:13 PM

British, over here we call Wal-Mart ASDA...

My DVD's came from the net. I try not to spend money at ASDA.

But I'd bet money that if scratching FireFly DVD's would make ASDA/Wal-Mart money, they'd do it...
And impregnate the working one's with mind warping subliminal messages too...

How's that for a conspiracy theory?



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Friday, November 11, 2005 4:09 PM

Just a cold reality of capitalism. Ergo, capitalism is evil.

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Please don't think they give a shit.

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Friday, November 11, 2005 5:05 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Just a cold reality of capitalism. Ergo, capitalism is evil.

If Wal-Mart takes a big enough slam, ya think the American people might stand up against the corporate idea of how America should be used for profit, and that the elderly and infirmed (Useless Ones) should be driven back into the Earth?

Chrisisall

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Friday, November 11, 2005 5:12 PM

Either way I love that store.

Keep shiny!

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Friday, November 11, 2005 5:19 PM

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Originally posted by Kaylee4Simon:
Either way I love that store.

Can you not see that Wal-Mart will have a sizeable hand in making Earth-that-was? Is convience and relativly low prices worth the destruction of our society, its' families and our planet (you know, in the long run, I mean...)?

Chrisisall, guilty of purchasing the odd dvd there his self

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Friday, November 11, 2005 6:17 PM

Okay, I probably deserved this, but I'm going to fight back.

Walmart is evil.

Walmart is not freemarket capitalism,

Walmart is monopolistic capitalism.

I don't support monopolistic capitalism. It might be evil. It's certainly not good. It's pretty close to totalitariam socialism, it lacks the potential check that democratic socialism might have, provided that it didn't cause a break down in the democracy, which it tends to.

Monopoly has infected our capitalist system and threatens to bring it to a neo-socialist society, where every service is totally controlled by one corporation, all of which with govt. ties. Walmart to the best of my knowledge doesn't yet work for govt. but it will, and govt. already works for it.

No, Walmart kills competition. This makes it the equivalent, back to our "capitalism is evolution" thread, walmart is the equivalent of a pandemic viral plague. Its RTL is forfeit :)

Kill it. Kill it soon and fast. Maybe torture it, send it to abu Ghraib.

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Friday, November 11, 2005 6:21 PM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Its RTL is forfeit :)

Kill it. Kill it soon and fast. Maybe torture it, send it to abu Ghraib.

Dreamtrove, thanks for the biggest LOL session I've had in a while...*wiping tears from his eyes*

Oh my...

Chrisisall

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