Let prices rise, let people not have so much stuff. Our society is completely focused on buying low priced crap and using consumerism to fill the void left by lack of interpersonal communication. People would rather shop than build anything, be that things or connections with other people...
-Curt Buying as little as possible, fixing things as often as practical and sometimes even beyond. Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:59:09 -0600 From: "M. Mitchell Marmel" <marme...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] 85 people own half the worlds wealth Message-ID: <CAEjCuGWLPtZoHWQSV4Mnq=xakxy2ognpy5q1jfqw-gcqwrk...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com>wrote: > People: > > This was supposed to be about Walmart not paying a "living wage", which > forces (some? Most? many?) of its "associates" to supplement their > earnings with public assistance. Aren't we promoting a kind of socialism > by redistributing our wealth so WM can maximize their profits? > Are you proposing price controls, then? If Wal-Mart has to pay their slaves more, they're just going to pass the costs on to the rest of us anyway with higher prices. Mandatory higher wages + mandatory lower prices = GUM Department Store in Moscow. Hardly a shining example. -MMM- _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
