-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <3438F7E2.7BAE@dev.null>, on 10/06/97 at 08, TruthMonger <tm@dev.null> said:
In Canada, one could 'choose' not to work for Safeway Stores, but the chain would come into a community and undersell everyone until the locals were run out of business, then raise prices dramatically. In theory, you could choose to *not* work for Safeway, but in reality, there was no one else left *to* choose to work for in the grocery business.
I have these same complaints about WalMart and KMart here in the US. It should be noted that it is the community that *chooses* to shop at the discount store rather than at the local shops. If they didn't buy products from the Safeway or WalMart then you wouldn't have the "problem" above. Economics 101; the people are voting with their wallets. This is a prime example of the basis of socialism; envy. The socialist are envious of the rich as they are a constant reminder of "what could have been". "If I had only worked a little harder" ... "If I only had spent more time in school" ... ect. After a period of time this envy turns to jelousy and rage. "It's not fair" ... "There should be a law" ... ect. The socialist never thinks of the hard work and personl sacrfise that goes into creating a "Safeway" or "KMart" or "Walmart". Such companies are not created by an act of GOD but through hard work and long hours by their founders. While the socialist is pissing his life away on the road to medocracy the founders of such companies, and 1000's like them, are working 80+ hours a week building their company sometimes at the expence of health, home and family. After years of hard work, when the founders are finaly able to reap the fruits of their toil, the socialist will step up and say: "I want what you have, you can't have that because I don't" even though the socialist has done nothing to earn it. This is the true evil of socialism: "Equiality of Outcome". While the socialist will make a big show of his desire for "equal opertunity" it is really "equal outcomes" that he desires. It is like the story of the grashopper and the ant. Both have the "equal opertunity" durring the summertime to store up for the winter. The ant choses the path of the capitalist and works hard all sumer long while the grasshopper choses the path of the socialist and wastes the days away in play and folly. When wintertime comes along the ant is well prepaired while the grasshopper is without. While the capitalist will see the grasshopper getting his just rewards for his foolhardy behavior the socialist will cry foul, seeing this as unjust that the ant should have so much and the grasshopper so little and demaniding that the ant give a portion of his "wealth" (a large portion no doubt) to the grasshopper thus achiving his desired "equality of outcome" even the grasshopper has done nothing to deserve such an outcome. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNDkgOY9Co1n+aLhhAQFmCwQAzll6zhks8izWPkVgCENJ+/CTuMbQqlDA cFKsMT4gX0OdqPVuFdjewVsLxTGFcKr2nkLxjWmp62ypH6Nn/uL/R3CPJ6Bsmzzc EVDI0HZOnHUirlOm1c/zz13jGihzLXww1RIcamkixnbWnXH3WPVank1ZQMyBsCab 6k9jTZmbY2w= =vHjj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----