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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
Yes but if you're doing it cheaper then that inevitably means that you're employing fewer people to do it, which more than offsets any gain made by the money other consumers save.
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Wallmart selling a shirt for 4.00 vs mom and pops 15.00 doesn't mean it requires a different number of people to sell the shirt. that's quite a gap in logic... that "cheaper products" require "fewer employees"
i can understand what you are saying and understand the general arguments... however, we are supposed to be living in the USA, not Communist North Korea. People vote by the millions everyday on this issue. They vote with their wallets and their hard earned money. If they vote YES for Wallmart and NO for mom and pop, then that's life. If you truly believe in capitalism, you shouldn't be telling people how they should spend their money. supply and demand is exactly that.
The economy is not a zero sum system. Economies grow. Wealth is created. You can't treat it is a static idea and a simple zero sum system where if someone wins, someone must lose. It doesn't work like that. People save money at Wallmart and spend it elsewhere in their community. Perhaps to start their own companies and even grow jobs/consumption. That all has nothing to do with what Wallmart does with its tiny profit from a small town.
I am not for Wallmart
I am not for small business
I am for the consumers right to choose how they want to spend their own hard earned money. You can't be a true believer in democracy and only support it when your side wins.... anymore than you can believe in capitalism so long as everything is fair, even and you agree with the outcomes. We became the worlds largest economy by adhering to certain ideals. End of story. No one has surpassed us, because they are too busy trying to figure out how to guarantee equality of outcome rather than ensuring equality of opportunity.
