This is the basic neo-liberal argument; they saw if we all get to pay lower prices, we all benefit.
What they dont mention is that means lower wages for us, so we cant afford the cheaper goods anyway. The American Middle Class was born in the boom of post ww2 when America controlled everything. Those days will not be replicated unless we bomb everyone else again.
Instead of trying to compete with walmart, build a network for lower retail markets to share their resources. The future of the economy is in convenience.
What a bunch of morons! "HURR we shouldn't build a Wal-Mart because kids might shoplift from it!" That's like saying "We shouldn't build a bridge because someone might spray-paint it!"
@LacusTheDestroyer Yeah, I had to replay that part. That sums up the logical capacity of these mobs, I guess.
"For the first time, kids will have a record. Cuz kids are kids, and they will go in those stores and pick up things, n security is gonna grab em, and that's crime!"
Unions are teaming up against Walmart, but Walmart sells plenty of union-made products. It really makes little sense. These politicians want to keep the middleclass right where it is. Broke. Walmart didn't unionize it's workers, & that's why these libtard pols are against them. How does that make sense, you ask? Because all unions give money to the Lib politicians, funding their elections & play money. You know if Walmart unionized, these folks would be handing out shopping carts to the public!
vulgar libertarianism at it's finest. wal-mart uses subsidies, land grants, lobbied "regulation" of state power to it's advantage, which in turn crush the local small businesses. Wal-mart isn't an example of "free market" any more than Obama is.
@fountainherz But walmart has never forced you to buy anything, tax you, kill you, declare illegal wars in the name of your protection, put you in a cage, and well tell you what to do. They sell cheap stuff, that's it don't attack the shadow of the behemoth! The state is the problem! Walmart will do what it will always try to do, make money, capitalism is greed, just that greed works against our favor in a market socialism. Rather than a win win in a free market.
How are subsidies, land grants, regulations, et. al. funded (which wal-mart lobbies for)?
Tax.
So yes, they implicitly tax you, and through their state-granted monopolization, essentially force you to buy from them (a low-income family doesn't have enough money to buy from the higher-priced small businesses that are being crushed by waltmart). In essence the "shadow of the behemoth" is more of a doppelganger of the behemoth.
@fountainherz They don't force anything buddy, they still need the state in order to survive, this is why government doesn't work. Without the state this wouldn't be possible, if you attack walmart and completely destroy them, another walmart will pop up that's my point, it's not walmart it's the state! The state makes you poor! In a free market walmart would be like every other store.
@rickygervais1776 *continued" the american economy, because when you restrict people selling in your country, that just makes the countries want to buy less from you, so it further destroyed jobs! So under political guise "to help the people"they, put minimum wage laws, banned alcohol, fixed prices, and spent the public's money like it was water!
Ok, I hate Walmart. I'm an economic lefty. But I think we can all unite behind the idea that the woman at 1:11 is a profoundly idiotic person. I had to go back and watch her again because I couldn't believe that that was her argument against Walmart. Man oh man...pathetic on so so many levels.
@rickygervais1776 If your a economic socialist, you do realize socialism has no restraint, it will always trample your social rights! And look what the socialist policies did to the great depression! The federal reserve over saturated the economy with easy credit, when the market tried to correct this mistake, the federal reserve did the right thing and picked up interest rates, but the government under the guise of "protecting business" enacted tariffs further destroying.
@circumarc Are you bloody kidding me? You have not one logical bone in your body? You're an ignorant beyond belief, there's one opinion so that's the automatic truth? And that opinion is backed by NO evidence, just based on the public ignorance like yourself. So if you know so much about it, and you read about what did they do to make it so much better? How could doing what they got them in the depression the first place get them out of it? Isn't that the definition of insanity?
@SarionFetecuse I like how you just make shit up and dont even bother offering anything resembling evidence to support your vague claims. Good for you!
@circumarc You want proof?GO READ FDR's speech raver against hoover! Go look at the laws hoover *the smmal government guy* put in place! Do you know what the Smoot Hawley Tariff act is?It helped destroyed trade! Because if you cant buy from other countries, countries don't buy from you! Hoover raised taxes to levels never before seen! Revenue Act of 1932!You don't know what in Gods name you're talking about! And if Hoover was bad, FDR TOP HIM!I sware you statist are as dumb as a post!
@SarionFetecuse I think it's great you entire understanding of politics economics and history comes from Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. It's adorable actually. Rage against your parents. Yaaargh!
@circumarc Seriously you obviously don't want a logical debate just assumptions of what I believe in, besides the initiation of force being the root of all our problems. And you say I don't want to have a rational debate even though I gave you evidence when you accused me of "making up shit". And you keep straw manning everything I say like 90% of statist *debatist" do, I've seen it hundreds of times. Even statists, you'd hate do the exact same thing! LOL! Good bye statist enjoy!
@circumarc So tell me, how is raising taxes on the rich to 60 percent help end the depression? It was enacted in 1932? Do you know when the depression ended? At the end of ww2! Did the tax hikes work? Did the bid to protect american jobs work? NO! It BACKFIRED! And say the ww2 was good, because it *stimulated* that's like saying kids breaking windows of a shop, because those shops have to hire window repairmen!
See, that exposes how you are unable to have a rational debate.. You dont actually respond to what is said, you just post your pre-determined ideas. Which is fine, but it's not going to be informative for either involved. I get that you think that 'government' is the cause of all problems. But that is an incredibly sophomoric critique which requires a very, very limited of the past 400 years in USA. I'll leave u to your fantasies
@circumarc ludwig von mises, murray rothbard, walter williams, robert murphy, hans herman-hoppe, jorg guido hulsmann, thomas sowell, need any more bitch? go back to your bong water
socialists... talking before thinking. i just don't like the idea of wall mart being subsidized by the government. that ruins all the competion efort made by other business
The one that made me slap my forehead what that one loud mouth who said that BECAUSE of walmart, all the kids are going to become shoplifters and get a criminal record. Seriously? That doesn't come from a lack of good parenting? These same kids who would shoplift from walmart, for some reason they're incapable of shoplifting at any other retailer? This is pure idiocy.
although I dont like walmart, I dont agree with these idiots. people have the right to open what ever store they want and where they want it as long as they own the land (or lease)... and if you dont like walmart so much, DONT SHOP THERE!!!
@TheSlaughterJoker You're right ... and if they weren't a good employer, why are there 10 applicants for every 1 position available? These anti-folks are big dopes.
Makes sense. A Wal-Mart lives about fifteen minutes away from my house, but a Country Mart sits only four minutes away but has higher prices. Wal's low prices allow me to keep more of my money, which I then use to absorb the higher prices of Country Mart whenever I'm pinched on time.
By extension, if you sell or specialize in something Wal-mart doesn't (house cleaning, antiques...) the extra cash in peoples' pockets can go straight to you.
instead of attacking the corporations that make money, what about the government that gives them subsidies for hiring and lets the mom and pop stores pay their employees, that gives big box stores a "development grant" and a "tax abatement" to pay for their real estate, but lets mom and pop. pay their mortgage.....wonder where your small businesses went ???
Walmart is not evil. Geez oh man. Walmart thrives because they do a good job at keeping prices low. No unions that drive up prices. Great selection. Walmart is the best thing in our town. I run into lots of people I know at Walmart.
American was not built on capitalism. America was built on individual freedom that ended when big corporations took over the people and then later also the government.
Wal-Mart is evil, because it destroys all local high quality businesses and replaces it with cheap products from work slaves in Asia. What do you think how free they are??? ASSHOLE!!!
That's the problem, Wal-Mart employs people and makes them depend on them. Before Wal-Mart they maybe were business owner which could make their own decisions. Read Karl Marx "Das Kapital" and how big business made farmers depend on capitalists.
@sunnyboyX89 You fucking referenced Karl Marx's Das Kapital, a book that has been thoroughly refuted and that has next to no supporters in Academia, or anywhere else.
"You fucking referenced Karl Marx's Das Kapital, a book that has been thoroughly refuted and that has next to no supporters in Academia, or anywhere else."
Who cares about you academics. You brought us into this mess with your MBA and all that market theory shit. Karl Marx was never refuted, what a crap. In the opposite, everything he said has become reality, for example the crisis of capitalism and that it will turn into state capitalism.
@sunnyboyX89 "Karl Marx was never refuted, what a crap."
Really? Is that why there are so few Marxists out there, and the number of Marxists are decreasing? How come there are next to no common people here on YouTube (by here on YouTube, I mean in a face video) arguing for Marxism? I've been looking but have yet to find any.
Proof that Das Kapital has been thoroughly refuted is that practically no one takes it seriously, neither in Academia or ANYWHERE ELSE.
Most people on this video channel are white middle-class people. I give a shit at you all and how you think about marxism. The workers, people that produce your wealth while you are sitting on your ass typing comments on YT, that are the people i'm fighting for. Majority of Americans does not work in the manufacturing sector, that's why marxism which was always weakened by anti-communist FBI propaganda, is declining in America.
@sunnyboyX89 "Majority of Americans does not work in the manufacturing sector,"
That's because we have a Service-Sector economy, not a Producing Economy, but I digress. That doesn't address the issue of why there are no videos of anyone outside of Academic fringe groups advocating Marxism here on YouTube. No one takes it seriously. It's a failed movement.
Yeah right, a service sector society is a society full of bourgeoisie. 20% is poor, the rest is middle-class. Just a few percentage is working in the industrial sector. Most the industrial sector jobs are in third world countries. The working class and the rich are divided by borders, that's why marxism is in downfall in america, because you are all becoming capitalists.
@sunnyboyX89 "Yeah right, a service sector society is a society full of bourgeoisie. 20% is poor, the rest is middle-class."
You go on to say that most of the industrial sector jobs are in third world countries, well tell me what jobs America has now if most of the industrial sector jobs are in other countries. The vast majority of our jobs are retail jobs. Therefore, we have a service sector economy.
What's your point? Yeah we are a service sector economy. That's what i'm saying and that's why marxism which is deeply-connected with the industrial sector jobs is declining in America.
You can not afford to buy more expensive things, because the highly-paid jobs have gone to the third world AND because of the low wage jobs we have also in America. That's an classical downward spiral. I don't think that fighting the unions will help us.
@sunnyboyX89 "You can not afford to buy more expensive things, because the highly-paid jobs have gone to the third world AND because of the low wage jobs we have also in America."
What!? That doesn't make any sense. If the jobs that pay high wages are going to the 3rd world, why would corporations hire in the 3rd world? That doesn't make any sense, since you also say that Corporations in the 3rd world exploit workers by paying them "anti-human wages".
@sunnyboyX89 The only reason that the jobs those people are working pay more here is because of excessive government regulations like Minimum Wage *which I'm convinced actually makes the rich even richer in practice*. Over there, the actual worth of the labor is paid, while here, the price is artificially propped up.
The minimum wage makes the rich even richer ????? LOL ARE YOU REALLY BELIEVING THAT??? LOL!!! Dude, don't let them kidding you!!! ;)))
Of course it's other way around and that has become a problem, because a wealth gap means slower growth in keynesian economics, but yeah i know you don't believe in keynesian economics.
@sunnyboyX89 No, I don't believe in Keynesian economics, but yes I do believe that Minimum Wage makes the UBER rich even richer based on how they respond to Minimum Wage regulations.
In the third world are no unions, there are regulations for corporations, no environment standards, that's why they can produce so cheap. In the US they have to pay higher wages, that's why they outsourced the jobs. That's an classical supply-side economic downward spiral. Another austrian economic fail.
There are still many marxists on YT, we just don't have that money for those expensive video channels, cato, mises, reason, heritage and however they are called.
@sunnyboyX89 Expensive? If you can afford a computer and a monthly internet bill, which the very vast majority of people can, you can afford to buy a $20 webcam to make videos with. People who don't put their face to their ideas are pansies.
If you go shopping at Wal-Mart you do a crime. You can't see your crime, but it happens everyday in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia where people work at sweatshops for Wal-Mart and other western corporations for wages that are anti-human. Profits, profits, profits, that's all Wal-Mart sees. They don't care about the environment and their employees. Greed, greed, greed, that is all.
@sunnyboyX89 Define an Anti-Human wage. An Anti-Human Wage would be forcing people to work for absolutely no money. If sweatshops are so bad, why are so many people in those countries that you listed flocking to them? Because they (rightfully) feel that working there is better than the alternative; starving to death and dying with no roof over their heads. Also, people won't work for wages that they can't buy necessities with, so the Anti-Human wage garbage is just that. Garbage.
Anti-Human wage is when you get 50$ a month when others get $18.700.000 in a year. To produce a t-shirt in Bangladesh for H&M costs around 1$ and then they sell it for 50$ in the western world. Are you really trying to justify that??? People who let that happen are criminals.
Wal Mart and co are forcing people to work for them, because they ruined their business to make them depend on them. They can not survive without working for them and that's why they are flocking.
@sunnyboyX89 How the hell did Wal-Mart ruin businesses, exactly? Are you saying that Wal-Mart used covert means to sabotage the workings of the neighboring businesses? Because the only thing I've seen Wal-Mart do is out-compete it's competitors in the form of greater selections and lower prices. In which case, how the hell does that harm the consumers? You're crying about poor people, well how does it benefit someone who's poor to pay $5 for something when they can get it for $2-3 elsewhere?
Wal Mart dumps the prices for goods on a level a western small quality business can't compete with. Wal-Mart has access to cheap labor, small business not. That's unfair. Where the liberty of small business owner here??? There is no liberty in big business capitalism. Wal-Mart is shitting at us.
@sunnyboyX89 "Wal Mart dumps the prices for goods on a level a western small quality business can't compete with. Wal-Mart has access to cheap labor, small business not. That's unfair."
You're basing your position in Altruistic nonsense. The world is not a fair place. Never has been, never will be. Also, you didn't address my question of how it benefits the poor to pay a higher price for something when they can get the same product elsewhere for a lower price.
"Also, people won't work for wages that they can't buy necessities with, so the Anti-Human wage garbage is just that."
LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Are you serious??? THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!!! OF COURSE THEY WORK FOR WAGES THEY CAN'T BUY NECESSITIES WITH, BECAUSE WITHOUT THE JOB THEY WOULD STARVE TO DEATH!!! IN CHINA WHERE YOUR IPHONE WAS MADE, WORKERS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF THE WORKING CONDITIONS!!! FUCK CAPITALISM!!!
@sunnyboyX89 "THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!!! OF COURSE THEY WORK FOR WAGES THEY CAN'T BUY NECESSITIES WITH, BECAUSE WITHOUT THE JOB THEY WOULD STARVE TO DEATH!!!"
Without it, they would starve to death. You're saying, right there, that they are buying necessities with the wages earned from the job that doesn't pay enough for them to buy necessities. Way to go, genius; you contradicted yourself.
You don't understand. Of course they would starve do death without western corporations investing there. That's the problem the third worlders have, their life is depend on big corporations. That's why they have no freedom there and big business is exploiting the situation they are in although they could pay much higher wages.
@sunnyboyX89 "That's why they have no freedom there and big business is exploiting the situation they are in although they could pay much higher wages."
If you go grocery shopping, are you going to knowingly pay more for groceries than you have to? Chances are, no you wouldn't. Employers are the same way. They seek the cheapest possible labor. Also, the fact that the 3rd world is full of socially repressive regimes couldn't possibly be a factor in there being no freedom in the 3rd world, right?
"If you go grocery shopping, are you going to knowingly pay more for groceries than you have to? Chances are, no you wouldn't. Employers are the same way. They seek the cheapest possible labor."
That's the problem with capitalism, it's all about profits and markets, nothing about good working conditions in third world countries.
@sunnyboyX89 "That's the problem with capitalism, it's all about profits and markets, nothing about good working conditions in third world countries."
Well, do you pay $5 for an item that you can get elsewhere for like $2-3? No you don't odds are, BUT WAIT! You're a greedy Capitalist because you want to consume at the cheapest possible price and won't pay those higher prices for the benefit of your fellow proletariat, just like the corporations who won't pay higher wages!!
"Also, the fact that the 3rd world is full of socially repressive regimes couldn't possibly be a factor in there being no freedom in the 3rd world, right?"
Yeah but then why western corporations are allowed to import goods from those repressive regimes??? It's because of the profits, it's capitalism. It's because they don't care about your liberty, it just cares about your property.
@sunnyboyX89 Property IS Liberty. How can you say you have freedom when you don't even have the freedom to individually own land or any other form of property? Marxism calls for the means of production to be owned collectively by the Proletariat, but that means that everyone owns the land, the pickaxes, etc. And even then, even if you found people stupid enough to go along willingly with this idea, how would they know what to produce? How would they know what the needs of Society are?
Yeah and that's why capitalism where property is very unequal distributed means the end of liberty.
"Marxism calls for the means of production to be owned collectively by the Proletariat, but that means that everyone owns the land, the pickaxes, etc."
@sunnyboyX89 "Yeah and that's why capitalism where property is very unequal distributed means the end of liberty."
In Capitalism, there is no "Distribution" in the strict sense of the term. Also, equality is a very vague term. Do you want to be unequal in freedom or equal in Slavery, because the latter is what Marxism does. It's not democratic, and it's not feasible. It is a revolt against logic and reason. Sorry. You gave it your best shot, but you failed.
@sunnyboyX89 the idea of egalitarianism rebels against human nature. marx joins plato in imagining the great utopias, but i hardly believe in utopia. and most people that have lived under communism don't believe in it either.
Being an narcissistic self-centered libertarian is against the nature, because humans always needed the SOCIety to survive. Without the COMMUNIty humanity would be still an unimportant animal race. And communism is 100% natural. Capitalism is anti-natural and anti-science too.
"And even then, even if you found people stupid enough to go along willingly with this idea, how would they know what to produce?"
It's just another form of stockholding, they also don't know what to produce, because that's not their job, that's the job of the departments in the company itself, the people that work to satisfy the consumers. In this case that's the same story as in capitalism. It's just the ownership that is different.
Those sweatshop jobs are so horrible that people flock to them by the millions and compete for them, eagerly abandoning other low-skill jobs for a chance to work at WalMart.
Because, as incomprehensible as it may seem to you, some people are actually less well-off than your spoiled, first-world ass. A lot less well-off, in fact. And if you had any empathy for them at all, you would not be advocating that the least bad option available to them be made illegal. -
- You would advocate boycotts of third-world governments who practice forced attempts at industrialization, you would advocate free trade in agriculture between the first- and third worlds that third-world farmers could drive their spoiled, Western counterparts out of business and have an attractive alternative to sweatshopping, and you would beg more Western companies to set up shop in poor countries, thereby normalizing and eventually driving up wages across the world.
And of course i would abolish food exports. It's so crazy that food is shipped over the whole planet, what an utter nonsense. It's also so inefficient. The future is locally.
The future means local economy, moving away from big business central planning. It's local and democratic.
I'm a civil libertarian and my semi-social-liberal views would bring more liberty than all your capitalist propaganda shit copied from the imperial Koch Brothers.
You are all talking about liberty, but the truth is you are the enemies of liberty. There is no liberty in capitalism. You have no fucking clue, liberty in your ass. Damm hypocrites!
I just advocate the end of free trade, which makes it even possible that corporations let produce in low-wage countries and which makes it even possible that local quality business are going to broke for shitty third world quality low wage dumping prices.
Y'know, I don't even need to appeal to Austrian economic theory. The Classical economists, even for their limitations, did a fine job of falsifying your atomistic, xenophobic mercantilist nonsense.
The greatest failing of modern economic theory is that it's a muddled, contradictory mess, perpetrated by power-hungry bureaucrats, fascist ideologues and compliant econometricians to cover up the crimes of the state.
The greatest failing of Classical economic theory was its conception of intrinsic value, which prevented the solution of many important problems by a system which was otherwise mostly sound. -
- The greatest failing of Austrian economic theory is that you can't realize how wrong you are unless you've read and understood it.
The greatest failing of economic theory qua economic theory is that power-hungry despots and ignorant, spoiled first-world brats with something to prove will not take heed of it.
Austrian economics already failed after the gilded age. I don't have to prove that again. The FED, the oil-cartels, the chicago met scandal, the railroad bubble, that all was a big fail and there was a reason why they introduced all those social programs. The middle-class was not founded during the gilded age, it was founded after the world war two central planning new deal high tax rates economy.
they gave me a job after being unemployed for six months, I have a bachelor's degree, tons of student debt and I'm sorry but unemployment (which ran out) doesn't cut it. These assholes may think the jobs at Wal-mart aren't real but let me tell you, they really pay my rent and keep me off food stamps, something a lot of these people should try and do. So far it has been a great place to work, sure the pay sucks but it's part time! People who work PT their whole lives are never gonna make shit
The biggest 2000 corporations worldwide have 27 Trillion USD revenue per year. 70 million people are working for them. On the average 4 people are depend on one person working for these corporations. That means 350 million people are depend on these corporations. In other words these corporations, especially Wal-Mart are very powerful, so stop blaming poor people for their own life. We are all depend on them. We can't do anything without them.
The real truth behind this is just like my community here in Frostburg, MD, the city counsel members that are blocking Walmart's expansion are the same people who own the local businesses and simply do not want the competition. Every point they make is a smokescreen for this fact. The small businesses here in Frostburg are usually closed except for a few days a week/year when the city closes down US route 40 (Main Street) for local business events.
Walmart has one of the greenest policies in the corporate world. They give millions to charity every year. They are the biggest employer in the world. What liberals hate is this all sounds conservative; work hard, give, be competitive. People agree to work at Walmart because they want to, no one forces them to work there.
First, Walmart stopped supporting SOPA recently, because they would lose business if they continued to do so and that's how the market works. Secondly, ever notice how Walmart doesn't get laws to protect it like say, your local grocers? Because they don't have lobbyists and unions influencing politicians. So, with all this Occupy nonsense, you'd think those who want businesses out of politics would support Walmart. Just saying.
@Kamidake83 For real. That gets me annoyed when parents wont take responsibility for the actions their child takes. Your the one raising them so y should all the big corporations have to suffer if u were jus a bad parent. Also walmart isnt the only place that has security so i fail to see the point of her speech.
So if I understand this black woman at about the 1:00 mark, it is Wal-Mart's if her kids are thieves? Really? I thought it was the parent's responsibly to teach their children the difference between right and wrong.
walmart is the biggest backer of SOPA and walmart will destroy the American Constitution, piece by piece. The perception of cheap junk from china is the cost of your freedom!
Nick Gillespie absolutely cracks me up! I almost peed my pants watching an interview with him by Brian Lamb where he makes a "To Catch a Predator" joke.
This is why young people don't have jobs - electing morons who think economic competition is bad. They shut down low-paying jobs that generally go to teenagers, and the result is rampant unemployment for those under 25. Add in the minimum wage applying even to teens still living with their parents (or existing at all) and you have three times as much unemployment for unskilled workers with little experience (generally those under 25) than the national average.
Oh man, i literally laughed out loud hearing that owner talk about what he had to do to stay in business, sounds like it made his service better towards his own customers!
"Why i don't want a wallmart in my town because ill have to work harder to offer better prices and product."
@KLisaLisa Walmart, according to these food desert people, doesn't sell food. I know this, because I live in a "food desert" - practically across the street from a "Super" Wal-mart, where I can get really cheap (and just as good) food. The only time I don't buy from Wal-mart is when I want something relatively "fancy" (and always expensive), like lamb or other less common meat.
At are walmart in port alberni water is pissing up through all the floors ,cause they built it on top of swampland you know a wild life area!!!....Damp goods throughout the store ! dont buy electrical products from them
I was in middle school when the closest town to mine got a Wal-Mart...they dropped prices so much that BOTH competing groceries stores in my town had to close down or were bought up...and sometime in highschool my town got a Wal-Mart as well...
Now, both of those groceries that were closed, came back under new management and are thriving. One being a mexican store (yay Illegals) and the other being a Harps Foods...let me just say, you get what you pay for...its cheep for a reason.
Im still going to shop at walmart , i save so much money by shopping there . Everyone has their own opinions and I think if there are people who don't like walmart then, don't shop there thats great for you guys , keep up with the campaigning and the war on walmart ! Make sure you guys save the jobs of millions of people out there. But in the mean time , I will be living it up saving lots of money shopping at walmart :)
I do like these people cause they getin' together to solve a problem in their state-city New York. The same think should happen in my Romanian country. When something not try to come to us, we should response. Bravo, NY!
no. what she means is that Wal-mart doesn't trust children. That even if the kids are innocent, as soon as they pick up an item, Wal-mart will be on them ready to arrest.
There are good points to be made here, but I'd like to see a follow up discussing WalMarts history of being invited to compete unfairly with small business via tax breaks like property tax abatements.
These are nothing but fucking Union thug, Communists who HATE capitalism. They attack the biggest & the best, McDonalds, Walmart, ect.........Fucking losers.
Walmart is a place for retired people, high school kids, & spouses who need a little extra cash. Its NOT a fucking career you dipshits! Get an education & get a real fucking JOB you lazy bastards!
@falcondriver100 I agree. I'm not an over zealous supporter of big corps because they tend to shut down the little guys (I like the little guys, they care about their customers but business is amoral and that's my value so I don't push it on others) but I support their privilige to exist. They can provide jobs and services where small business lack the means to do so.
@HybridD91 I hear ya! I HATE the fact they put Mom & Pop joints out of business but thats how our system works. Nobody loves Mom/Pop restaruants more than me, but nobody bitches about the higher class chains do they? No b/c even the LIBERALS like eating thier cheap!
I"d bet you anything these same people actually shop Walmart b/c liberals are known to be the cheapest, least generous people in the Country. They give to charity at a rate of 1/5 of Conservatives. Fact based on demographics.
This sounds like a mainline Republican talking point. "Corporations are always good & can do no wrong" while totally ignoring the damage done by these multi-national corporations.
JP Morgan makes record profit while simultaneously taking millions in bail outs & must be doing good because their stockholders turned a profit. The same people who pay no tax on their offshore accounts.
@rooftopeagle No that's not a talking point, you fucking moron, it's a strawman put forth by you. This video was about Walmart, and JP Morgan is actually a huge donation machine of Democrats, just like GE, which also payed no taxes.
@itachi705 Okay I'm a 'fucking moron' but you conveniently leave out that JP Morgan funded Bush a republican...The whole video wilfully left out the facts about the social & economical effects of walmart & the corrupt business practices used by the Chi-comm mega retailer & instead zoomed in on Unions & cheap groceries.
I hate unions with a passion but I also see unions as one of the only ways to reign walmart in to some sort of reasonable workplace instead of retail sweat shops.
@JackBlair2 They are always purposefully understaffed to keep costs down while forcing employees to work unpaid overtime & to keep them stretched to the max even though they may have hundreds of resume's in the office.
The price the healthcare plan outside the reach of their staff then pass out contacts for welfare services effectively using welfare in place of benefits.
So once the welfare system is factored in your 'cheap' gallon of milk cost you more than ten times as much as elsewhere!
The anti-Walmart movement in NYC is another example of cronyism. The politicians just want more political power for themselves so they undermine personal consumer choice with policies designed to give special favor to their favorite unions and stores. These grocery store unions will get no respect for me. They are nothing like the Theodore Roosevelt era unions.
Unions can be quite powerful. There was a prime example decades ago when a bakery union destroyed a some small business bakeries like Yoch's Bakery in central PA by collaborating with larger business bakeries on a massive pay raise and a strike. More recent examples of union power gone wrong include public sector workers like public school teachers using children's futures as bargaining chips to prevent themselves from paying a little more towards their benefits at taxpayer expense.
@Infantry9 Way to cherry-pick. I'm pretty sure if you wanted evidence of companies without unions crushing worker's rights, you wouldn't need to look back decades and twist a story about a bakery that went under because they didn't want to pay their workers. Unions aren't perfect, but without them corruption is the NORM, not the exception.
Corruption takes place in all organizations under any system. Unionization doesn't change that and corruption has occurred within unions themselves as mentioned. That bakery wanted to pay the workers well but they needed to amass enough profit to reinvest just to stay competitive. In the end, the consumer payed the price of that corrupt act. Not all unions are bad and some played an important role in reigning in true corruption but that should not blind people from union corruption.
The nearest walmart is about 20 minutes away from us and we make the trip out.. Why? Our local grocers charges a premium, of which there's only 1, you can't really buy anything in bulk. It should also be noted that we travel 20 minutes out of our way to patronize a store in a different town. Since many businesses have sprung up in area, namely home depot, gamestop, sally's beauty supply and so forth, we tend to to have a reason to spend money in the area.
I can't believe a black Democrat played the race card, never seen that before. Wal-Mart does a fine job of keeping a lid on inflation, although I think the FED is going to try and print enough money it won't make any difference.
maybe.... but i've been to and lived in many towns that grow very slowly because the town relies on a wal-mart. you buy your clothes, food, tv's, house hold goods all from walmart. No specialty business can compete on that level, so it takes years of new business to try and fail for people to have more choice and availability. I'm probably the only libertarian free market capitalist who is anti walmart, but i stand by my disgust with them (has nothing to do with unions or Chinese slave labor)
@scalp340 How exactly do you know that Town X grew "slowly" (slowly compared to what?) because of Walmart? Of course specialty stores can survive and even thrive because Walmart and all Big Box stores are general stores that cannot afford to carry niche or unique brands. Yes, Walmart sells a lot of things, but try buying an Italian suit or a solid oak table. If people choose to spend on general items, that is their choice.
This is the basic neo-liberal argument; they saw if we all get to pay lower prices, we all benefit.
What they dont mention is that means lower wages for us, so we cant afford the cheaper goods anyway. The American Middle Class was born in the boom of post ww2 when America controlled everything. Those days will not be replicated unless we bomb everyone else again.
circumarc 1 day ago
Maybe if the makers of this vid had worked at walmart, they'd have a different point of view.
ev1ls0da 2 days ago
Instead of trying to compete with walmart, build a network for lower retail markets to share their resources. The future of the economy is in convenience.
UTubeBrowzer 4 days ago
What a bunch of morons! "HURR we shouldn't build a Wal-Mart because kids might shoplift from it!" That's like saying "We shouldn't build a bridge because someone might spray-paint it!"
LacusTheDestroyer 1 week ago 7
@LacusTheDestroyer Yeah, I had to replay that part. That sums up the logical capacity of these mobs, I guess.
"For the first time, kids will have a record. Cuz kids are kids, and they will go in those stores and pick up things, n security is gonna grab em, and that's crime!"
I couldn't make that shit up if I tried...
TheCruel 3 days ago
lol, fucking americans! getting upsett about everything!
milliterguttaer 1 week ago
AMERICAN SELLOUTS SHOP AT WALMART
intherise 1 week ago
Unions are teaming up against Walmart, but Walmart sells plenty of union-made products. It really makes little sense. These politicians want to keep the middleclass right where it is. Broke. Walmart didn't unionize it's workers, & that's why these libtard pols are against them. How does that make sense, you ask? Because all unions give money to the Lib politicians, funding their elections & play money. You know if Walmart unionized, these folks would be handing out shopping carts to the public!
RageAgainstRustyCage 2 weeks ago
vulgar libertarianism at it's finest. wal-mart uses subsidies, land grants, lobbied "regulation" of state power to it's advantage, which in turn crush the local small businesses. Wal-mart isn't an example of "free market" any more than Obama is.
fountainherz 2 weeks ago
@fountainherz But walmart has never forced you to buy anything, tax you, kill you, declare illegal wars in the name of your protection, put you in a cage, and well tell you what to do. They sell cheap stuff, that's it don't attack the shadow of the behemoth! The state is the problem! Walmart will do what it will always try to do, make money, capitalism is greed, just that greed works against our favor in a market socialism. Rather than a win win in a free market.
SarionFetecuse 2 weeks ago
@SarionFetecuse
How are subsidies, land grants, regulations, et. al. funded (which wal-mart lobbies for)?
Tax.
So yes, they implicitly tax you, and through their state-granted monopolization, essentially force you to buy from them (a low-income family doesn't have enough money to buy from the higher-priced small businesses that are being crushed by waltmart). In essence the "shadow of the behemoth" is more of a doppelganger of the behemoth.
fountainherz 2 weeks ago
@fountainherz They don't force anything buddy, they still need the state in order to survive, this is why government doesn't work. Without the state this wouldn't be possible, if you attack walmart and completely destroy them, another walmart will pop up that's my point, it's not walmart it's the state! The state makes you poor! In a free market walmart would be like every other store.
SarionFetecuse 2 weeks ago
Also where the hell is Maa Haa Aaa? 1:36
rickygervais1776 2 weeks ago
@rickygervais1776 *continued" the american economy, because when you restrict people selling in your country, that just makes the countries want to buy less from you, so it further destroyed jobs! So under political guise "to help the people"they, put minimum wage laws, banned alcohol, fixed prices, and spent the public's money like it was water!
SarionFetecuse 2 weeks ago
Ok, I hate Walmart. I'm an economic lefty. But I think we can all unite behind the idea that the woman at 1:11 is a profoundly idiotic person. I had to go back and watch her again because I couldn't believe that that was her argument against Walmart. Man oh man...pathetic on so so many levels.
rickygervais1776 2 weeks ago
@rickygervais1776
i loled
that's the same kind of nonsensical argument used against gun rights
Oh and I'm a "righty" and I hate wal-mart. this video is a prime example of "vulgar libertarianism"
fountainherz 2 weeks ago
@fountainherz Agreed. BTW I also support gun rights. I'm an economic lefty only. Totally agree with your take on Walmart.
rickygervais1776 2 weeks ago
@rickygervais1776 If your a economic socialist, you do realize socialism has no restraint, it will always trample your social rights! And look what the socialist policies did to the great depression! The federal reserve over saturated the economy with easy credit, when the market tried to correct this mistake, the federal reserve did the right thing and picked up interest rates, but the government under the guise of "protecting business" enacted tariffs further destroying.
SarionFetecuse 2 weeks ago
@SarionFetecuse "And look what the socialist policies did to the great depression"
They ended it.
Get a book.
circumarc 1 week ago
@circumarc Are you bloody kidding me? You have not one logical bone in your body? You're an ignorant beyond belief, there's one opinion so that's the automatic truth? And that opinion is backed by NO evidence, just based on the public ignorance like yourself. So if you know so much about it, and you read about what did they do to make it so much better? How could doing what they got them in the depression the first place get them out of it? Isn't that the definition of insanity?
SarionFetecuse 1 week ago
@SarionFetecuse I like how you just make shit up and dont even bother offering anything resembling evidence to support your vague claims. Good for you!
circumarc 1 week ago
@circumarc You want proof?GO READ FDR's speech raver against hoover! Go look at the laws hoover *the smmal government guy* put in place! Do you know what the Smoot Hawley Tariff act is?It helped destroyed trade! Because if you cant buy from other countries, countries don't buy from you! Hoover raised taxes to levels never before seen! Revenue Act of 1932!You don't know what in Gods name you're talking about! And if Hoover was bad, FDR TOP HIM!I sware you statist are as dumb as a post!
SarionFetecuse 1 week ago
@SarionFetecuse I think it's great you entire understanding of politics economics and history comes from Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. It's adorable actually. Rage against your parents. Yaaargh!
circumarc 1 week ago
@circumarc Seriously you obviously don't want a logical debate just assumptions of what I believe in, besides the initiation of force being the root of all our problems. And you say I don't want to have a rational debate even though I gave you evidence when you accused me of "making up shit". And you keep straw manning everything I say like 90% of statist *debatist" do, I've seen it hundreds of times. Even statists, you'd hate do the exact same thing! LOL! Good bye statist enjoy!
SarionFetecuse 1 week ago
@circumarc So tell me, how is raising taxes on the rich to 60 percent help end the depression? It was enacted in 1932? Do you know when the depression ended? At the end of ww2! Did the tax hikes work? Did the bid to protect american jobs work? NO! It BACKFIRED! And say the ww2 was good, because it *stimulated* that's like saying kids breaking windows of a shop, because those shops have to hire window repairmen!
SarionFetecuse 1 week ago
@SarionFetec Where did I say anything about WW2?
See, that exposes how you are unable to have a rational debate.. You dont actually respond to what is said, you just post your pre-determined ideas. Which is fine, but it's not going to be informative for either involved. I get that you think that 'government' is the cause of all problems. But that is an incredibly sophomoric critique which requires a very, very limited of the past 400 years in USA. I'll leave u to your fantasies
circumarc 1 week ago
@circumarc there wouldn't have been a great depression had it not been for government intervention go read any economist (krugman doesn't count)
HanStanwell 2 days ago
@HanStanwell Your inability to name even one likely belies your total ignorance on the subject.
circumarc 1 day ago
@circumarc ludwig von mises, murray rothbard, walter williams, robert murphy, hans herman-hoppe, jorg guido hulsmann, thomas sowell, need any more bitch? go back to your bong water
HanStanwell 1 day ago
socialists... talking before thinking. i just don't like the idea of wall mart being subsidized by the government. that ruins all the competion efort made by other business
stronghold10a 2 weeks ago
Socialists and environmentalists. They don't want us to have anything good.
reneekatz666 2 weeks ago
The one that made me slap my forehead what that one loud mouth who said that BECAUSE of walmart, all the kids are going to become shoplifters and get a criminal record. Seriously? That doesn't come from a lack of good parenting? These same kids who would shoplift from walmart, for some reason they're incapable of shoplifting at any other retailer? This is pure idiocy.
HumbleWillis 2 weeks ago
The return to feudalism: imminent.
DeArmadas 3 weeks ago
although I dont like walmart, I dont agree with these idiots. people have the right to open what ever store they want and where they want it as long as they own the land (or lease)... and if you dont like walmart so much, DONT SHOP THERE!!!
TheSlaughterJoker 3 weeks ago
@TheSlaughterJoker You're right ... and if they weren't a good employer, why are there 10 applicants for every 1 position available? These anti-folks are big dopes.
HumbleWillis 2 weeks ago
Liberals have criminal records?????????? I didnt know.LOL
HoustonCabbie 3 weeks ago
Fag-Mart
whitelighter27club 3 weeks ago
We should use federal troops to pursue and arrest all unions. ALL UNIONS MUST BE ABOLISHED!
GProduct 3 weeks ago
...And liberals act like they're the champions of the poor.
TheTubbtubb 3 weeks ago
Makes sense. A Wal-Mart lives about fifteen minutes away from my house, but a Country Mart sits only four minutes away but has higher prices. Wal's low prices allow me to keep more of my money, which I then use to absorb the higher prices of Country Mart whenever I'm pinched on time.
By extension, if you sell or specialize in something Wal-mart doesn't (house cleaning, antiques...) the extra cash in peoples' pockets can go straight to you.
TheDavoo 3 weeks ago
GO WALMART!
Anonymous77513 3 weeks ago
XD This is hilarious, Wal Mart is actually cool. Oh btw, I go into wal mart and haven't stolen a damn thing.
5that1dude5 3 weeks ago
instead of attacking the corporations that make money, what about the government that gives them subsidies for hiring and lets the mom and pop stores pay their employees, that gives big box stores a "development grant" and a "tax abatement" to pay for their real estate, but lets mom and pop. pay their mortgage.....wonder where your small businesses went ???
halloranedward 4 weeks ago in playlist misc III
Send Walmart to Brazil please, we need Jobs here...
Fuck you rich people, fuck you
paunocu666 1 month ago
Walmart is not evil. Geez oh man. Walmart thrives because they do a good job at keeping prices low. No unions that drive up prices. Great selection. Walmart is the best thing in our town. I run into lots of people I know at Walmart.
JawsJaws 1 month ago
FUCK CAPITALISM!!!
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 You are stupid. America was built on capitalism.
JawsJaws 1 month ago
@JawsJaws
American was not built on capitalism. America was built on individual freedom that ended when big corporations took over the people and then later also the government.
Wal-Mart is evil, because it destroys all local high quality businesses and replaces it with cheap products from work slaves in Asia. What do you think how free they are??? ASSHOLE!!!
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 Dont shop there if you dont like it, CUNT! I personally love Walmart. Everyone in my town shops there.
JawsJaws 1 month ago
@JawsJaws
There is a difference between liberty and capitalism.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@JawsJaws
By the way, the founding fathers were slaveholders. How does that fit in your ideology?
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 SO what does that have to do with Walmart? Walmart is the second biggest employer in my county.
JawsJaws 1 month ago
@JawsJaws
That's the problem, Wal-Mart employs people and makes them depend on them. Before Wal-Mart they maybe were business owner which could make their own decisions. Read Karl Marx "Das Kapital" and how big business made farmers depend on capitalists.
You think capitalism = freedom??? FAIL!!!
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 You fucking referenced Karl Marx's Das Kapital, a book that has been thoroughly refuted and that has next to no supporters in Academia, or anywhere else.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
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"You fucking referenced Karl Marx's Das Kapital, a book that has been thoroughly refuted and that has next to no supporters in Academia, or anywhere else."
Who cares about you academics. You brought us into this mess with your MBA and all that market theory shit. Karl Marx was never refuted, what a crap. In the opposite, everything he said has become reality, for example the crisis of capitalism and that it will turn into state capitalism.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "Karl Marx was never refuted, what a crap."
Really? Is that why there are so few Marxists out there, and the number of Marxists are decreasing? How come there are next to no common people here on YouTube (by here on YouTube, I mean in a face video) arguing for Marxism? I've been looking but have yet to find any.
Proof that Das Kapital has been thoroughly refuted is that practically no one takes it seriously, neither in Academia or ANYWHERE ELSE.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
Most people on this video channel are white middle-class people. I give a shit at you all and how you think about marxism. The workers, people that produce your wealth while you are sitting on your ass typing comments on YT, that are the people i'm fighting for. Majority of Americans does not work in the manufacturing sector, that's why marxism which was always weakened by anti-communist FBI propaganda, is declining in America.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "Majority of Americans does not work in the manufacturing sector,"
That's because we have a Service-Sector economy, not a Producing Economy, but I digress. That doesn't address the issue of why there are no videos of anyone outside of Academic fringe groups advocating Marxism here on YouTube. No one takes it seriously. It's a failed movement.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
Yeah right, a service sector society is a society full of bourgeoisie. 20% is poor, the rest is middle-class. Just a few percentage is working in the industrial sector. Most the industrial sector jobs are in third world countries. The working class and the rich are divided by borders, that's why marxism is in downfall in america, because you are all becoming capitalists.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "Yeah right, a service sector society is a society full of bourgeoisie. 20% is poor, the rest is middle-class."
You go on to say that most of the industrial sector jobs are in third world countries, well tell me what jobs America has now if most of the industrial sector jobs are in other countries. The vast majority of our jobs are retail jobs. Therefore, we have a service sector economy.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
What's your point? Yeah we are a service sector economy. That's what i'm saying and that's why marxism which is deeply-connected with the industrial sector jobs is declining in America.
You can not afford to buy more expensive things, because the highly-paid jobs have gone to the third world AND because of the low wage jobs we have also in America. That's an classical downward spiral. I don't think that fighting the unions will help us.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "You can not afford to buy more expensive things, because the highly-paid jobs have gone to the third world AND because of the low wage jobs we have also in America."
What!? That doesn't make any sense. If the jobs that pay high wages are going to the 3rd world, why would corporations hire in the 3rd world? That doesn't make any sense, since you also say that Corporations in the 3rd world exploit workers by paying them "anti-human wages".
You've contradicted yourself again.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
Highly paid jobs have gone to third world countries and THERE THEY ARE LOW WAGE JOBS. Is that really so hard to understand?
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 The only reason that the jobs those people are working pay more here is because of excessive government regulations like Minimum Wage *which I'm convinced actually makes the rich even richer in practice*. Over there, the actual worth of the labor is paid, while here, the price is artificially propped up.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
The minimum wage makes the rich even richer ????? LOL ARE YOU REALLY BELIEVING THAT??? LOL!!! Dude, don't let them kidding you!!! ;)))
Of course it's other way around and that has become a problem, because a wealth gap means slower growth in keynesian economics, but yeah i know you don't believe in keynesian economics.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 No, I don't believe in Keynesian economics, but yes I do believe that Minimum Wage makes the UBER rich even richer based on how they respond to Minimum Wage regulations.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
In the third world are no unions, there are regulations for corporations, no environment standards, that's why they can produce so cheap. In the US they have to pay higher wages, that's why they outsourced the jobs. That's an classical supply-side economic downward spiral. Another austrian economic fail.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
There are still many marxists on YT, we just don't have that money for those expensive video channels, cato, mises, reason, heritage and however they are called.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 Expensive? If you can afford a computer and a monthly internet bill, which the very vast majority of people can, you can afford to buy a $20 webcam to make videos with. People who don't put their face to their ideas are pansies.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@JawsJaws
If you go shopping at Wal-Mart you do a crime. You can't see your crime, but it happens everyday in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia where people work at sweatshops for Wal-Mart and other western corporations for wages that are anti-human. Profits, profits, profits, that's all Wal-Mart sees. They don't care about the environment and their employees. Greed, greed, greed, that is all.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 Define an Anti-Human wage. An Anti-Human Wage would be forcing people to work for absolutely no money. If sweatshops are so bad, why are so many people in those countries that you listed flocking to them? Because they (rightfully) feel that working there is better than the alternative; starving to death and dying with no roof over their heads. Also, people won't work for wages that they can't buy necessities with, so the Anti-Human wage garbage is just that. Garbage.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
Anti-Human wage is when you get 50$ a month when others get $18.700.000 in a year. To produce a t-shirt in Bangladesh for H&M costs around 1$ and then they sell it for 50$ in the western world. Are you really trying to justify that??? People who let that happen are criminals.
Wal Mart and co are forcing people to work for them, because they ruined their business to make them depend on them. They can not survive without working for them and that's why they are flocking.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 How the hell did Wal-Mart ruin businesses, exactly? Are you saying that Wal-Mart used covert means to sabotage the workings of the neighboring businesses? Because the only thing I've seen Wal-Mart do is out-compete it's competitors in the form of greater selections and lower prices. In which case, how the hell does that harm the consumers? You're crying about poor people, well how does it benefit someone who's poor to pay $5 for something when they can get it for $2-3 elsewhere?
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
Wal Mart dumps the prices for goods on a level a western small quality business can't compete with. Wal-Mart has access to cheap labor, small business not. That's unfair. Where the liberty of small business owner here??? There is no liberty in big business capitalism. Wal-Mart is shitting at us.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
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@sunnyboyX89 "Wal Mart dumps the prices for goods on a level a western small quality business can't compete with. Wal-Mart has access to cheap labor, small business not. That's unfair."
You're basing your position in Altruistic nonsense. The world is not a fair place. Never has been, never will be. Also, you didn't address my question of how it benefits the poor to pay a higher price for something when they can get the same product elsewhere for a lower price.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
"Also, people won't work for wages that they can't buy necessities with, so the Anti-Human wage garbage is just that."
LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Are you serious??? THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!!! OF COURSE THEY WORK FOR WAGES THEY CAN'T BUY NECESSITIES WITH, BECAUSE WITHOUT THE JOB THEY WOULD STARVE TO DEATH!!! IN CHINA WHERE YOUR IPHONE WAS MADE, WORKERS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF THE WORKING CONDITIONS!!! FUCK CAPITALISM!!!
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!!! OF COURSE THEY WORK FOR WAGES THEY CAN'T BUY NECESSITIES WITH, BECAUSE WITHOUT THE JOB THEY WOULD STARVE TO DEATH!!!"
Without it, they would starve to death. You're saying, right there, that they are buying necessities with the wages earned from the job that doesn't pay enough for them to buy necessities. Way to go, genius; you contradicted yourself.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
"...you contradicted yourself."
You don't understand. Of course they would starve do death without western corporations investing there. That's the problem the third worlders have, their life is depend on big corporations. That's why they have no freedom there and big business is exploiting the situation they are in although they could pay much higher wages.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "That's why they have no freedom there and big business is exploiting the situation they are in although they could pay much higher wages."
If you go grocery shopping, are you going to knowingly pay more for groceries than you have to? Chances are, no you wouldn't. Employers are the same way. They seek the cheapest possible labor. Also, the fact that the 3rd world is full of socially repressive regimes couldn't possibly be a factor in there being no freedom in the 3rd world, right?
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
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"If you go grocery shopping, are you going to knowingly pay more for groceries than you have to? Chances are, no you wouldn't. Employers are the same way. They seek the cheapest possible labor."
That's the problem with capitalism, it's all about profits and markets, nothing about good working conditions in third world countries.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "That's the problem with capitalism, it's all about profits and markets, nothing about good working conditions in third world countries."
Well, do you pay $5 for an item that you can get elsewhere for like $2-3? No you don't odds are, BUT WAIT! You're a greedy Capitalist because you want to consume at the cheapest possible price and won't pay those higher prices for the benefit of your fellow proletariat, just like the corporations who won't pay higher wages!!
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
My personal purchase behavior doesn't change anything. It's the regulation that do.
There is no problem with price competition, but there is a problem with price competition on the backs of the working class.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
"Also, the fact that the 3rd world is full of socially repressive regimes couldn't possibly be a factor in there being no freedom in the 3rd world, right?"
Yeah but then why western corporations are allowed to import goods from those repressive regimes??? It's because of the profits, it's capitalism. It's because they don't care about your liberty, it just cares about your property.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 Property IS Liberty. How can you say you have freedom when you don't even have the freedom to individually own land or any other form of property? Marxism calls for the means of production to be owned collectively by the Proletariat, but that means that everyone owns the land, the pickaxes, etc. And even then, even if you found people stupid enough to go along willingly with this idea, how would they know what to produce? How would they know what the needs of Society are?
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
"Property IS Liberty."
Yeah and that's why capitalism where property is very unequal distributed means the end of liberty.
"Marxism calls for the means of production to be owned collectively by the Proletariat, but that means that everyone owns the land, the pickaxes, etc."
That's just another form of stockholding.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 "Yeah and that's why capitalism where property is very unequal distributed means the end of liberty."
In Capitalism, there is no "Distribution" in the strict sense of the term. Also, equality is a very vague term. Do you want to be unequal in freedom or equal in Slavery, because the latter is what Marxism does. It's not democratic, and it's not feasible. It is a revolt against logic and reason. Sorry. You gave it your best shot, but you failed.
Good fight, Communist.
TheManiacalSatanist6 1 month ago
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"In Capitalism, there is no "Distribution" in the strict sense of the term."
What? There is no distribution, yeah of course, how could i forget that, in capitalism the natural laws are out of work, of course, lol.
"Also, equality is a very vague term."
I just want more equality to ensure equal oportunities. I don't want total equality, nobody wants that.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
i meant shareholding, stupid language barrier ;)
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89 the idea of egalitarianism rebels against human nature. marx joins plato in imagining the great utopias, but i hardly believe in utopia. and most people that have lived under communism don't believe in it either.
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Being an narcissistic self-centered libertarian is against the nature, because humans always needed the SOCIety to survive. Without the COMMUNIty humanity would be still an unimportant animal race. And communism is 100% natural. Capitalism is anti-natural and anti-science too.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@TheManiacalSatanist6
"And even then, even if you found people stupid enough to go along willingly with this idea, how would they know what to produce?"
It's just another form of stockholding, they also don't know what to produce, because that's not their job, that's the job of the departments in the company itself, the people that work to satisfy the consumers. In this case that's the same story as in capitalism. It's just the ownership that is different.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89
Those sweatshop jobs are so horrible that people flock to them by the millions and compete for them, eagerly abandoning other low-skill jobs for a chance to work at WalMart.
Because, as incomprehensible as it may seem to you, some people are actually less well-off than your spoiled, first-world ass. A lot less well-off, in fact. And if you had any empathy for them at all, you would not be advocating that the least bad option available to them be made illegal. -
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PanzerDivisionBOM 1 month ago
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PanzerDivisionBOM 1 month ago
@PanzerDivisionBOM
And of course i would abolish food exports. It's so crazy that food is shipped over the whole planet, what an utter nonsense. It's also so inefficient. The future is locally.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@PanzerDivisionBOM
The future means local economy, moving away from big business central planning. It's local and democratic.
I'm a civil libertarian and my semi-social-liberal views would bring more liberty than all your capitalist propaganda shit copied from the imperial Koch Brothers.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@PanzerDivisionBOM
You are all talking about liberty, but the truth is you are the enemies of liberty. There is no liberty in capitalism. You have no fucking clue, liberty in your ass. Damm hypocrites!
I just advocate the end of free trade, which makes it even possible that corporations let produce in low-wage countries and which makes it even possible that local quality business are going to broke for shitty third world quality low wage dumping prices.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89
Y'know, I don't even need to appeal to Austrian economic theory. The Classical economists, even for their limitations, did a fine job of falsifying your atomistic, xenophobic mercantilist nonsense.
PanzerDivisionBOM 1 month ago
@PanzerDivisionBOM
economists did a shit, all those MBAs are to blame for this market failures, not me
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@sunnyboyX89
The greatest failing of modern economic theory is that it's a muddled, contradictory mess, perpetrated by power-hungry bureaucrats, fascist ideologues and compliant econometricians to cover up the crimes of the state.
The greatest failing of Classical economic theory was its conception of intrinsic value, which prevented the solution of many important problems by a system which was otherwise mostly sound. -
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PanzerDivisionBOM 1 month ago
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- The greatest failing of Austrian economic theory is that you can't realize how wrong you are unless you've read and understood it.
The greatest failing of economic theory qua economic theory is that power-hungry despots and ignorant, spoiled first-world brats with something to prove will not take heed of it.
PanzerDivisionBOM 1 month ago
@PanzerDivisionBOM
Austrian economics already failed after the gilded age. I don't have to prove that again. The FED, the oil-cartels, the chicago met scandal, the railroad bubble, that all was a big fail and there was a reason why they introduced all those social programs. The middle-class was not founded during the gilded age, it was founded after the world war two central planning new deal high tax rates economy.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
@PanzerDivisionBOM
The state of the capitalists.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
they gave me a job after being unemployed for six months, I have a bachelor's degree, tons of student debt and I'm sorry but unemployment (which ran out) doesn't cut it. These assholes may think the jobs at Wal-mart aren't real but let me tell you, they really pay my rent and keep me off food stamps, something a lot of these people should try and do. So far it has been a great place to work, sure the pay sucks but it's part time! People who work PT their whole lives are never gonna make shit
zetaiotapike2000 1 month ago
@zetaiotapike2000 unless maybe they have two jobs, then they just work their asses off but I respect them more than lazy people.
zetaiotapike2000 1 month ago
@zetaiotapike2000
The biggest 2000 corporations worldwide have 27 Trillion USD revenue per year. 70 million people are working for them. On the average 4 people are depend on one person working for these corporations. That means 350 million people are depend on these corporations. In other words these corporations, especially Wal-Mart are very powerful, so stop blaming poor people for their own life. We are all depend on them. We can't do anything without them.
sunnyboyX89 1 month ago
The real truth behind this is just like my community here in Frostburg, MD, the city counsel members that are blocking Walmart's expansion are the same people who own the local businesses and simply do not want the competition. Every point they make is a smokescreen for this fact. The small businesses here in Frostburg are usually closed except for a few days a week/year when the city closes down US route 40 (Main Street) for local business events.
dudewarrior 1 month ago
Walmart has one of the greenest policies in the corporate world. They give millions to charity every year. They are the biggest employer in the world. What liberals hate is this all sounds conservative; work hard, give, be competitive. People agree to work at Walmart because they want to, no one forces them to work there.
1980PintoMan 1 month ago
First, Walmart stopped supporting SOPA recently, because they would lose business if they continued to do so and that's how the market works. Secondly, ever notice how Walmart doesn't get laws to protect it like say, your local grocers? Because they don't have lobbyists and unions influencing politicians. So, with all this Occupy nonsense, you'd think those who want businesses out of politics would support Walmart. Just saying.
KittenKoder 1 month ago
@Kamidake83 For real. That gets me annoyed when parents wont take responsibility for the actions their child takes. Your the one raising them so y should all the big corporations have to suffer if u were jus a bad parent. Also walmart isnt the only place that has security so i fail to see the point of her speech.
datguyoverdere12 1 month ago
So if I understand this black woman at about the 1:00 mark, it is Wal-Mart's if her kids are thieves? Really? I thought it was the parent's responsibly to teach their children the difference between right and wrong.
Kamidake83 1 month ago 2
walmart is the biggest backer of SOPA and walmart will destroy the American Constitution, piece by piece. The perception of cheap junk from china is the cost of your freedom!
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This is why young people don't have jobs - electing morons who think economic competition is bad. They shut down low-paying jobs that generally go to teenagers, and the result is rampant unemployment for those under 25. Add in the minimum wage applying even to teens still living with their parents (or existing at all) and you have three times as much unemployment for unskilled workers with little experience (generally those under 25) than the national average.
mtanousable 2 months ago
My problem with Walmart is its new unholy alliance with the First Lady and her fraudulent "Let's Move" boondoggle.
LadyLiberty1885 2 months ago
IM AGAINST WALMART COMMING TO nyc UNLESS THEY SELL GUNS TOO!
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Oh man, i literally laughed out loud hearing that owner talk about what he had to do to stay in business, sounds like it made his service better towards his own customers!
"Why i don't want a wallmart in my town because ill have to work harder to offer better prices and product."
Man, what a time we live in.
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Ironically, while the left complains about Walmart, they also complain that food is too expensive in the city. Food deserts and all that. Crazy.
KLisaLisa 3 months ago
@KLisaLisa Walmart, according to these food desert people, doesn't sell food. I know this, because I live in a "food desert" - practically across the street from a "Super" Wal-mart, where I can get really cheap (and just as good) food. The only time I don't buy from Wal-mart is when I want something relatively "fancy" (and always expensive), like lamb or other less common meat.
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At are walmart in port alberni water is pissing up through all the floors ,cause they built it on top of swampland you know a wild life area!!!....Damp goods throughout the store ! dont buy electrical products from them
bagger101 4 months ago
Sound byte reporting. Not enough information.
xianshengzhengxiong 6 months ago
I was in middle school when the closest town to mine got a Wal-Mart...they dropped prices so much that BOTH competing groceries stores in my town had to close down or were bought up...and sometime in highschool my town got a Wal-Mart as well...
Now, both of those groceries that were closed, came back under new management and are thriving. One being a mexican store (yay Illegals) and the other being a Harps Foods...let me just say, you get what you pay for...its cheep for a reason.
Evileex 6 months ago
Im still going to shop at walmart , i save so much money by shopping there . Everyone has their own opinions and I think if there are people who don't like walmart then, don't shop there thats great for you guys , keep up with the campaigning and the war on walmart ! Make sure you guys save the jobs of millions of people out there. But in the mean time , I will be living it up saving lots of money shopping at walmart :)
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NietzscheanMan 6 months ago
lol that's the Wal-Mart near my house at 2:00
Corpulu 6 months ago
I do like these people cause they getin' together to solve a problem in their state-city New York. The same think should happen in my Romanian country. When something not try to come to us, we should response. Bravo, NY!
dobre2008 6 months ago
Oh you silly Americans..
rethxoth 7 months ago
Juck and rubbish
thomasucc 7 months ago
Race to the bottom
thomasucc 7 months ago
One thing left out, the Stuff that Walmart sells is pure Junk, their stuff is not worth a FUCK. Thats why its so CHEAP.
needlove1982 8 months ago
@needlove1982 Cheaper than the same exact product sold somewhere else.
flyoverjoe 7 months ago
no. what she means is that Wal-mart doesn't trust children. That even if the kids are innocent, as soon as they pick up an item, Wal-mart will be on them ready to arrest.
CieloxCantare 8 months ago
@CieloxCantare If that's how Wal-Mart conducts business, why are the stores filled with families?
flyoverjoe 7 months ago
"...kids are kids..." What a fool. All kids steal property from retail stores? What? Maybe in her "community", but not in the real world.
RustyIronloins 9 months ago 11
There is NOTHING " good" where Walmart is concerned! Period!
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There are good points to be made here, but I'd like to see a follow up discussing WalMarts history of being invited to compete unfairly with small business via tax breaks like property tax abatements.
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DonnCuailnge 9 months ago
These are nothing but fucking Union thug, Communists who HATE capitalism. They attack the biggest & the best, McDonalds, Walmart, ect.........Fucking losers.
Walmart is a place for retired people, high school kids, & spouses who need a little extra cash. Its NOT a fucking career you dipshits! Get an education & get a real fucking JOB you lazy bastards!
falcondriver100 9 months ago
@falcondriver100 I agree. I'm not an over zealous supporter of big corps because they tend to shut down the little guys (I like the little guys, they care about their customers but business is amoral and that's my value so I don't push it on others) but I support their privilige to exist. They can provide jobs and services where small business lack the means to do so.
HybridD91 9 months ago
@HybridD91 I hear ya! I HATE the fact they put Mom & Pop joints out of business but thats how our system works. Nobody loves Mom/Pop restaruants more than me, but nobody bitches about the higher class chains do they? No b/c even the LIBERALS like eating thier cheap!
I"d bet you anything these same people actually shop Walmart b/c liberals are known to be the cheapest, least generous people in the Country. They give to charity at a rate of 1/5 of Conservatives. Fact based on demographics.
falcondriver100 9 months ago
This sounds like a mainline Republican talking point. "Corporations are always good & can do no wrong" while totally ignoring the damage done by these multi-national corporations.
JP Morgan makes record profit while simultaneously taking millions in bail outs & must be doing good because their stockholders turned a profit. The same people who pay no tax on their offshore accounts.
rooftopeagle 9 months ago
@rooftopeagle No that's not a talking point, you fucking moron, it's a strawman put forth by you. This video was about Walmart, and JP Morgan is actually a huge donation machine of Democrats, just like GE, which also payed no taxes.
itachi705 9 months ago 2
@itachi705 Okay I'm a 'fucking moron' but you conveniently leave out that JP Morgan funded Bush a republican...The whole video wilfully left out the facts about the social & economical effects of walmart & the corrupt business practices used by the Chi-comm mega retailer & instead zoomed in on Unions & cheap groceries.
I hate unions with a passion but I also see unions as one of the only ways to reign walmart in to some sort of reasonable workplace instead of retail sweat shops.
rooftopeagle 9 months ago
@rooftopeagle I have been in Walmart frequently - doesn't seem like a "retail sweatshop" to me.
JackBlair2 9 months ago
@JackBlair2 They are always purposefully understaffed to keep costs down while forcing employees to work unpaid overtime & to keep them stretched to the max even though they may have hundreds of resume's in the office.
The price the healthcare plan outside the reach of their staff then pass out contacts for welfare services effectively using welfare in place of benefits.
So once the welfare system is factored in your 'cheap' gallon of milk cost you more than ten times as much as elsewhere!
rooftopeagle 9 months ago
We are going to force you to pay higher prices. Typical control freak regressives.
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How does Hillary Clinton get a "pass" from the Democrats for being on the Walmart Board back in the early days?
ArtStone 9 months ago
Union Stalinists do not care about the individual. They care about power.
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alishadavis100 9 months ago
The anti-Walmart movement in NYC is another example of cronyism. The politicians just want more political power for themselves so they undermine personal consumer choice with policies designed to give special favor to their favorite unions and stores. These grocery store unions will get no respect for me. They are nothing like the Theodore Roosevelt era unions.
Infantry9 10 months ago 2
@Infantry9 Good point, unions have tons of power. That's why our working class is so incredibly rich!
uberjim83 6 months ago
@uberjim83
Unions can be quite powerful. There was a prime example decades ago when a bakery union destroyed a some small business bakeries like Yoch's Bakery in central PA by collaborating with larger business bakeries on a massive pay raise and a strike. More recent examples of union power gone wrong include public sector workers like public school teachers using children's futures as bargaining chips to prevent themselves from paying a little more towards their benefits at taxpayer expense.
Infantry9 6 months ago
@Infantry9 Way to cherry-pick. I'm pretty sure if you wanted evidence of companies without unions crushing worker's rights, you wouldn't need to look back decades and twist a story about a bakery that went under because they didn't want to pay their workers. Unions aren't perfect, but without them corruption is the NORM, not the exception.
uberjim83 3 months ago
@uberjim83
Corruption takes place in all organizations under any system. Unionization doesn't change that and corruption has occurred within unions themselves as mentioned. That bakery wanted to pay the workers well but they needed to amass enough profit to reinvest just to stay competitive. In the end, the consumer payed the price of that corrupt act. Not all unions are bad and some played an important role in reigning in true corruption but that should not blind people from union corruption.
Infantry9 2 months ago
The nearest walmart is about 20 minutes away from us and we make the trip out.. Why? Our local grocers charges a premium, of which there's only 1, you can't really buy anything in bulk. It should also be noted that we travel 20 minutes out of our way to patronize a store in a different town. Since many businesses have sprung up in area, namely home depot, gamestop, sally's beauty supply and so forth, we tend to to have a reason to spend money in the area.
merkabaradio 10 months ago
I can't believe a black Democrat played the race card, never seen that before. Wal-Mart does a fine job of keeping a lid on inflation, although I think the FED is going to try and print enough money it won't make any difference.
UTubekookdetector 10 months ago 2
Ive actually stolen from more local places than I have at walmart. No security jackasses hahaha
BlackOpsStevo 10 months ago
@BlackOpsStevo Yeah that woman sounded preeeetttyy stupid.
Christobanistan 9 months ago
maybe.... but i've been to and lived in many towns that grow very slowly because the town relies on a wal-mart. you buy your clothes, food, tv's, house hold goods all from walmart. No specialty business can compete on that level, so it takes years of new business to try and fail for people to have more choice and availability. I'm probably the only libertarian free market capitalist who is anti walmart, but i stand by my disgust with them (has nothing to do with unions or Chinese slave labor)
scalp340 10 months ago
@scalp340 How exactly do you know that Town X grew "slowly" (slowly compared to what?) because of Walmart? Of course specialty stores can survive and even thrive because Walmart and all Big Box stores are general stores that cannot afford to carry niche or unique brands. Yes, Walmart sells a lot of things, but try buying an Italian suit or a solid oak table. If people choose to spend on general items, that is their choice.
kev3d 10 months ago