Do you think Wal-Mart is evil?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, November 27, 2005 20:12
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I agree.
Walmart is not only PNAC global
1. Walmart is socialist I'm sorry some people are too dumb to recognize the identical idea (socialism) in corporation form. I won't argue it either, it's too obvious, and I'm not defending my position re: socialism is evil. It kills. End of story.
2. Walmart is China. I will buy from China, I have no problem with it, if and only if the companies in question are abiding by fair free market and labor practices. If you by slave labor goods you support slavery.
3. I liked the Chairman Mart poster.
4. I'm a troll. I'm just bashing Walmart. I don't really care what throwback culture is doing to keep its workers alive long enough for maximum profit.
5. Walmart is very anti-capitalist. It got where it is by repeatedly breaking laws and being allowed to do so, probably by bribing politicians, but that's pure speculaiton.
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Quote:Thanks Haken, there's a lot of stats and info at that site besides info on the documentary.
Originally posted by Haken:
There's a movie by Robert Greenwald titled "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" that documents the effect that Wal-Mart has on the community. For more info, look here:
http://www.walmartmovie.com
Hey, how come I don't have a rapid response team with a jet?
Chrisisall, checking Wal-Mart online for reasonably priced jets
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Quote:I knew it.
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
4. I'm a troll. I'm just bashing Walmart.
You're being paid the big bucks by all those little Mom-and-Pop stores to incite unrest concerning our friends running Wal-mart!!!
Chrisisall
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Quote:And that’s the beauty of a free market. Although I don’t think your claim is very fair and a little bit sophomoric, I’ll defend your right not to shop where you wish.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I guess I just feel wrong about shopping at a company that perpetuates the use of slave labour overseas. That would be my main beef with them.
I, like most liberal capitalists, don’t care much for the socialists and quasi-feudal economic systems of some countries, but I also know that blaming it all on Wal-Mart is about as smart as blaming the fishmarket because the oceans are being over-fished. Although, I’m sure that there are probably people in the Wal-Mart’s upper crust that couldn’t care less about the stifling of civil liberties in the countries where their suppliers receive their goods, it doesn’t make them responsible for slavery. I think it is just more complicated.
On a less “social activist” note, when I was growing up Wal-Mart was a cultural Mecca to me. We would often go to Wal-Mart and just look around at all the fishing tackle, sports equipment, or whatever I happen to be involved with at the time. One of my fondest memories is of my grandfather taking me to the Wal-Mart ‘eatery’ to eat fries and drink Coke. It was a place to go where you could meet friends, like the soda shops of the 50’s or the city square even years earlier. And I read somewhere where more then half the couples in the town I lived in met at Wal-Mart.
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Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum.
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Actually Chris, it's a grudge. I was nearly murdered in back of Walmart at the employees. So it's vengeance, plain and simple.
Actually that's a true story. It's funny in the right lot. I was with a couple of friends and we went ot visit a friend of one of my friends who had just moved in. The local Walmart employees decided we were coniving to steal their wimin, and so decided the proper solution was to kill us with hunting knives a la "Deliverance."
For reference, here's a picture of one of the 'wimin' in kweschun:
Employee
And no, it's not the basis of my walmart opinion, but it sure didn't help their case any. :)
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Quote:Ah, the time when the original owners were running the show. Before it turned to the Dark side.
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
when I was growing up Wal-Mart was a cultural Mecca to me. We would often go to Wal-Mart and just look around at all the fishing tackle, sports equipment, or whatever I happen to be involved with at the time. One of my fondest memories is of my grandfather taking me to the Wal-Mart ‘eatery’ to eat fries and drink Coke. It was a place to go where you could meet friends, like the soda shops of the 50’s or the city square even years earlier. And I read somewhere where more then half the couples in the town I lived in met at Wal-Mart.
Chrisisall, a small town boy his self
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Okay, trying again:
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Ack.
My apologies.
I didn't think it would litterally inline post the pic like that, I thought it would keep the litteral URL so those that dared would have to copy and paste.
Now I must do penance
This is what none of them looked like:
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Uh...
I don't know what to say....
Both pictures floored me- for widely different reasons.
Chrisisall*cartoon sparks whirring around head*
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Quote:And God forbid the people running the company get up off their warm leather chairs long enough to actually SEE their stores and how they run and meet the people who work good portions of their lives for them. Warm and fuzzy isn't part of the oversized corporate/computerized culture, where hands-on is only at its' lowest level.
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
“Reducing” employees to number groups and group trends are the only way for corporations their size to get a grip on how they are doing and how they might do in the future - it’s just not going to very warm and fuzzy.
Maybe the size of the corp is it's problem.
Like Steven Segal said in On Deadly Ground (I know, but he said it so well in that movie), "How much is enough?"
Chrisisall sans ponytail
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