Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Go Wal-Mart Go

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

A clarification here - my point is directed specifically at the people 
who loathe, despise, and otherwise hate Wal-Mart.

-N

On Apr 5, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Nathan Odle wrote:

>
> On Apr 5, 2004, at 9:52 AM, Jonathan King wrote:
>>
>> Baloney.  An organization as highly engineered as Wal*Mart can
>> ABSOLUTELY get rid of 95% of these "accidental" screw-ups.  It's
>> exactly because we KNOW that Wal*Mart can control its own behavior
>> so extremely well that makes these kinds of things less acceptable,
>> especially when they are in the position to swing the market around
>> like it were a game of "crack-the-whip".  I agree with you
>> completely that the low-cost structure of Wal*Mart has saved people
>> a ton of money, and that this is a good thing.
>
> Maybe I'm being too literally-minded here, but my point is:
>
> Because I believe that Wal-Mart's existence is a net benefit to 
> society, I see no reason to not support them.  They do a lot of things 
> that I don't like, but I'm willing to accept those things due to the 
> fact that the positives outweigh the negatives.  In this way, I look 
> at it in a similar way that I do the ACLU and the NRA...and guess 
> who's a card-carrying member of both?
>
> That's not to say that they shouldn't be held accountable - they 
> absolutely should.  But to focus on a few things and summarily hate 
> Wal-Mart isn't in most peoples' best interest.
>
> -N
>
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