He looks like a midget alien.
Let me make this more clear for you - YOU ARE WRONG.
I hate Sunday mornings, mostly for the sadness I feel in reading threads like this one.
Anyway, Amazon is a far greater threat than WalMart ever was. Jeff Bezos sells more than 50% of EVERYTHING ordered online, he owns Whole Foods and the Washington Post (does anyone see a problem with that besides me?), and he has a 600 million dollar deal with the CIA. God knows how many independent businesses have shuttered thanks to him. Additionally, he abuses and underpays his employees, and, at a net worth of $127 billion, is the richest man in the history of the world.
Peopleâs refusal to acknowledge the danger inherent in all this, and in the laws that have allowed it to happen, reminds me of the âteachersâ in the Obedience to Authority study. We are a nation of tools.
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It not that we donât see it. Itâs âWTF can we do about it?â
Really?
Well I already donât shop at Whole Foods or buy the WP or order much from Amazon.
I just read recently that online sales make up very little in terms of actual retail. I saw far more stores shutter locally because of Walmart coming in than I ever did from Amazon. We couldnât stop them either and we tried.
Thatâs not true. Here in LA, at least, protests by local residents prevented a WalMart from going in. These things are possible, if more people wake up and take a stand instead of sitting back and saying, âWe canât do anything. Now let me buy another frock coat.â
Oh we fought something fierce to have them not bring in the Walmart here. We told them it would kill local businesses and it did. Now itâs pretty much the only game in town but âI told you soâ doesnât get them the fuck out of the place. Now they offer groceries and compete with our local grocery providers. The argument that they âcreate jobsâ is thrown around but now that so many other businesses have gone up, theyâre starting to see the problem but the shift has been made. Those businesses are not coming back.
That sucks. But you still could put WalMart out of business if enough people boycotted them.
But if they boycotted them at this point, there would be no place to buy anything. They closed out all the other department stores as well.
I guess that was a typo. I thought you meant other businesses were coming in.
Sorry, I meant up as in belly up or as the old Italian ladies say âbelly underâ.
It took me a second also, but then I thought⌠gone up⌠in smoke?
(edit: or gone belly up as she said)
Of course they donât have such things at WalMart. When I buy an article of that type it is from small American custom houses or specialty item shops. See - I support the mom and pop businesses.
âŚunlike you with your airline ticket buying, and fancy new major car manufacturer purchases.
You love to talk the cliche talk, but can you walk the walk, Lotus?
It seems guilt may be your real motivator, that is, if I can give you credit for having genuine pangs of conscience.
I am inclined to a different opinion about what point, if any, he has in this thread.
Iâve clarified what I took away from what Doc said and I agree with this:
Folks - we live in an age where the youth are getting ânewsâ and perspective from comedians⌠Although itâs not just youth, the information being fed to us is more opinion than fact.
Iâm aware he is/was trolling Lotus but sometimes you can find a nugget of truth in a pile of shit.
Weâve always done that, itâs not new to this age.
No - I wasnât trolling. I was stating what my observations demonstrate as factual. Thatâs what Iâve made a practice of doing, and will continue to do so.
âŚand I do not need anyone to tell me what my observation and opinion is or should be.
I donât think itâs been to the same degree.