Why do we reward stupidity?

It is interesting to see the difference in their personalities. One tends to draw in bright, cheerful colors puppy dogs and daisies, while the other tends towards grey storm clouds and bare trees. I'm trying to get them to see the power they posses over circumstance based on how they choose to color it.

 

There's nothing wrong with the dark, scary side of life


That is cool though. Very good advice.

 

i wouldn't say that was more accurate at all... but that's a whole diff convo

 

my mom has worked at wal-mart since the by gone days of 1985. without people supporting wal-mart, we would have went hungry many times over and she';d currently be out of a home.

 

This is where a lot of grey area begins. Corporations are purposely built so that blame can't really be placed anywhere. Your mom just works for Walmart, if people didn't support walmart, she'd be out of work and go hungry.

But one may not support walmart because of how they go about treating the people who make the things they sell. So what can we do? Either suck it up and shop at walmart, or not shop at walmart, demand that they do something about how their treat labourers, and hope for their employees sake that they do something about it. If people demanded better for their labourers by refusing to shop there, walmart would do something about it, their hand would be forced.

Instead everyone wants to save dollars and cents so they shop at walmart at the expense of others being exploited. This happens at many places. In the areas of China where Walmart has their big labour factories the people don't really have a lot of choice where they work, there just isn't options for them, so their hands are forced, they have to work 12 hour days for shit wage making cheap garbage for North Americans.

 

Or you could take a different color of crayon out of your box and look at it from the perspective that Walmart is giving these people an opportunity to earn a wage in an economy where they don't have a lot of choices.
I wonder how many of those workers in those factories have the same opinion as you and how many are thankful that they have a job and can feed their families.

I wonder how many times in history outraged young people with the best of intentions have completely fucked up opportunities for people who never asked for help in the first place?

Aren't you applying your own personal bias to the situation when in actuality you do not speak for those whose rights you would try and defend?

Every situation is neutral and has both positive and negative ramifications.
It really all depends which side of the fence you are standing on.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/06/AR2010060603295.html

Here is a link to a washington post article about the labor situation in china.

Seems not so much forced sweatshop labor as an unsophisticated workforce which until recently had not begun to organize to improve their own conditions.

 

say that to the wives, husbands, and parents of people who have died while working at wal-mart who are fighting to get their share of the 9.6 million dollars that wal mart collected from their life insurance policy.

there was a lady who had medical bills out the ass and wal-mart got 500,000 dollars after her husbands death and she hasn't even seen a penny.

they call it Dead Peasants Insurance.

 

The chinese don't work at walmart.

 

can you provide the resources from which you quote?

 

im still arguing against walmart.....im not in this chinese conversation

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/k...ed.For.Collecting.Life.Insurance.on.Employees

this is just one....but capitalism a love story is where I heard about that woman

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frs25RsstoA"]YouTube - Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' - Wal-Mart 'Dead Peasants' Scene

 

So walmart is an effect of capitalism.

 

doesn't make me socialist.

 

I didn't call you anything but your ire is misplaced when a company does things that are supported by the system, supported heavily by the consumer, and supported by the shareholders.

 

my dog eats his own throw up. so he's stupid and rewards himself..

 

of course... I agree with you....this is why walmart is so big. It doesn't mean the things they do are good for the public. It's the fact that they really don't care for people. thats all I'm trying to say.

I just don't support them and I was just trying to bring to light why.

what is sam walton's ghost back from the dead giving you head right now?

 

Care doesn't have anything to do with it, it is the legal business model that turns everyone into walmartians.

You believe is ghosts?

 

It takes a rare breed of evil to become a corporation as large as Wal-mart. Not all corporations use bribes and crooked loopholes to run their business.

Look at Bill Gates....he gives close to 50% of his yearly income to charity.
Wal-mart surviving sam give 3,000 a year.

walmart employees give 15 to 16 million.

p.s. no but i believe in head

 

I really do not care about this subject at all. I just like stating facts.