Comments on: Union Economics http://kingofforest.com/archives/36 Rants, Reactions, Ruminations, and Remedies from a thoughtful citizen Sun, 20 May 2012 08:55:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: Uncle Sam http://kingofforest.com/archives/36#comment-38 Uncle Sam Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:22:12 +0000 http://kingofforest.com/archives/36#comment-38 People point to Walmart and cry "anti-union". Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family's problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority. Unions serve to empower. Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an enviornment where there are fewer hurdles. Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people's belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the industry dominated by the middle and lower classes. Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean. The coining of the term "Uncle Sam" was a clue alluding to this::Sam Walton's WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class. People point to Walmart and cry “anti-union”.
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family’s problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an enviornment where there are fewer hurdles.

Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people’s belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the industry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.

The coining of the term “Uncle Sam” was a clue alluding to this::Sam Walton’s WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.

]]> By: Augustus Lowell http://kingofforest.com/archives/36#comment-39 Augustus Lowell Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:15:36 +0000 http://kingofforest.com/archives/36#comment-39 I'm not sure I can bring myself to be that enthusiastic about Wal-Mart (or that dyspeptic either about unions or about the "disfavored"), but I do think unionists -- and particularly their leaders -- tend to be pretty fuzzy in their knowledge and thinking about economics. -apl I’m not sure I can bring myself to be that enthusiastic about Wal-Mart (or that dyspeptic either about unions or about the “disfavored”), but I do think unionists — and particularly their leaders — tend to be pretty fuzzy in their knowledge and thinking about economics.

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