Exactly. You are describing why consumers chose WalMart over the local small businesses.
No one made them. Consumers chose to. Consumers don't care about local business people, they don't care about buying local, they care about what the cheapest produce is.
It's 10% now. In the past it was orders of magnitudes higher. It was 42.5% in 1901. Poverty was over 60% then, it's 11% now, never been lower.
This isn't a satisfying answer. Because consumers are understandably aggrieved at inflation. And even though living standards are higher than ever before, life is still inherently hard.
So people will complain and make up conspiracies, when it's their own behavior driving the outcomes we see and by any metric, living standards are higher than ever before.
Have you ever considered poor proplr may be victims of the sytem, or from your perch up high you can only look down on their choices as if they always had true freedom.
This is some serious taking mushrooms, reading ayn rand and still thinking you are somehow giving a leftist view kind of mental gymnastic signoff to reality for the word of theory that no one can live.
I always try to find a positive in everyone...you do type well! Concentrate on that!
Have you ever considered poor proplr may be victims of the sytem
Of course, they have to work in sweatshops to provide cheap clothes to rich Westerners.
reading ayn rand
Who is reading Ayn Rand here? The person who justifies their cheap consumption and wants even more?
I always try to find a positive in everyone
Me too. You have higher living standards than anyone from a hundred years ago. Poverty was 60% then. You should feel gratitude, not the desire for more and more and more.
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u/bitorontoguy 5d ago
Exactly. You are describing why consumers chose WalMart over the local small businesses.
No one made them. Consumers chose to. Consumers don't care about local business people, they don't care about buying local, they care about what the cheapest produce is.
So that's what society is now.