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But not free stuff. Have you seen all those looters?
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@Pitchblue right. We certainly can't stop killing the ecosystem with everyone working for everything they get, and there's massive poverty.
But we don't have alternatives because we're not socialist.
For Americans it's not profiting off human needs and creating poor classes that's wrong -. It's getting something without paying.
Nobody can reason with that. It obviously has endless wealth for its wars.
But we don't have alternatives because we're not socialist.
For Americans it's not profiting off human needs and creating poor classes that's wrong -. It's getting something without paying.
Nobody can reason with that. It obviously has endless wealth for its wars.
@Roundandroundwego I am suspicious of a Corporation like Walmart , with endless wealth, leaving their stores unprotected to get looted. I suspect they want to close the stores to sell online. This way they get paid by the insurance companies. Maybe they are working with government in an attempt to call martial law. It's always the poor, the disenfranchised who get the blame.
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@Pitchblue I haven't seen a looting since 1968.
The concept of theiving crowds on the rampage for free stuff comes up a lot, but the work needed to protect people from precarity in our country certainly gets little attention or press.
Possibly Americans can't be compassionate or reasonable. Perhaps they can only joke about material concerns while waging wars.
The concept of theiving crowds on the rampage for free stuff comes up a lot, but the work needed to protect people from precarity in our country certainly gets little attention or press.
Possibly Americans can't be compassionate or reasonable. Perhaps they can only joke about material concerns while waging wars.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Pitchblue I don't know the background to that but wouldn't the insurers refuse to pay if they found the shops had not been protected adequately against thieves?
I can understand Walmart closing shops to sell only by Internet purchases, as the banks are doing in the UK, but that's a different point. It does not occur to the companies that we do not all live with a computer or "smart"-'phone at our sides; or if it does, they do not care.
I can understand Walmart closing shops to sell only by Internet purchases, as the banks are doing in the UK, but that's a different point. It does not occur to the companies that we do not all live with a computer or "smart"-'phone at our sides; or if it does, they do not care.
@ArishMell They don't care. If you are to old to understand the internet and how to buy things there, be gone, they don't need you. If you are poor and don't have a computer, tough luck, goodbye. If Walmart wanted to protect their goods they would have armed security at the doors. No one cares about the people stealing. If a few got shot would anyone care then?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Pitchblue I agree - most large firms are now run by people young enough to have been brought up so surrounded by Internet-y things that they cannot comprehend life without.
Age is no barrier to understanding the Internet - it is a myth that it is only older people who are not on-line - but poverty may well be, barring even many in their teens or 20s from Internet access and so-called "smart"-'phone.
The idea that shop security guards need be armed and no-one would care if they shoot anyone , presumably dead, is a chilling reminder of the sort of society they work in.
Age is no barrier to understanding the Internet - it is a myth that it is only older people who are not on-line - but poverty may well be, barring even many in their teens or 20s from Internet access and so-called "smart"-'phone.
The idea that shop security guards need be armed and no-one would care if they shoot anyone , presumably dead, is a chilling reminder of the sort of society they work in.