I completely understand this view. We can't just 'tear down the system' without something to consume the power vacuum or Walmart's business just goes to Target or Costco or wherever. This thing is a hydra, and it will just grow another head. The correct action, IMO, is to boycott ALL of the businesses that we can that don't share our values, or at least curtail our reliance on them.
I work for a large pension that likely has huge investments in China. I can't just walk into the CIO or CEO's office and start jumping on the desk demanding things. It doesn't work like that. Our strength is in a million little ppl like you and me making seemingly small changes to our lives that when put together shakes the whole apple cart. Respect.
Thank you. I find it ironic that so many people here despise communists and socialists, and the welfare state that they create (and rightly so do they hate them!)
But then they demand that I give up everything that I have worked for, to satisfy what they want. It doesn't work like that. It really and truly does not. I don't have the mind or the patience to build a true competitor to Walmart, that would actually hold true to the original values that Sam Walton built his company around (reward excellence and hard work, buy American, improve peoples' lives through Capitalism's Bounty.) But if someone else does, and they want the services of a 20+ year professional Horticulturalist who still actively keeps up on yearly garden trends, new pesticides and herbicides, new hybrids, possible blights and plagues, newly resistant weeds, and all the stuff that people usually can't get from someone wearing a blue vest, I'd go over in a heart beat, even for slightly less pay (until I fucking prove my worth, then you're gonna pay what I deserve.)
But to anyone who sees me trying to repair and correct the course of the boat I'm in, and telling me that I need to jump into the ocean, as they putter past me in THEIR boat? Nah, fuck them.
I completely understand this view. We can't just 'tear down the system' without something to consume the power vacuum or Walmart's business just goes to Target or Costco or wherever. This thing is a hydra, and it will just grow another head. The correct action, IMO, is to boycott ALL of the businesses that we can that don't share our values, or at least curtail our reliance on them.
I work for a large pension that likely has huge investments in China. I can't just walk into the CIO or CEO's office and start jumping on the desk demanding things. It doesn't work like that. Our strength is in a million little ppl like you and me making seemingly small changes to our lives that when put together shakes the whole apple cart. Respect.
Thank you. I find it ironic that so many people here despise communists and socialists, and the welfare state that they create (and rightly so do they hate them!)
But then they demand that I give up everything that I have worked for, to satisfy what they want. It doesn't work like that. It really and truly does not. I don't have the mind or the patience to build a true competitor to Walmart, that would actually hold true to the original values that Sam Walton built his company around (reward excellence and hard work, buy American, improve peoples' lives through Capitalism's Bounty.) But if someone else does, and they want the services of a 20+ year professional Horticulturalist who still actively keeps up on yearly garden trends, new pesticides and herbicides, new hybrids, possible blights and plagues, newly resistant weeds, and all the stuff that people usually can't get from someone wearing a blue vest, I'd go over in a heart beat, even for slightly less pay (until I fucking prove my worth, then you're gonna pay what I deserve.)
But to anyone who sees me trying to repair and correct the course of the boat I'm in, and telling me that I need to jump into the ocean, as they putter past me in THEIR boat? Nah, fuck them.