Reply #63: It's called a captive market [View All]

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The answer the the question of "Why else are they the world's largest retailer on the face of earth?" is found in that they do have a captive market. You should check out some of the laws erected to hamstring Labor and Union organization just for starters.

The bigger and better of concentrated mass production facilitated their ability make that happen. In general low fuel and transportation costs turned us and our individualism into the slaves and drones of the older yore. It's now quicker and cheaper to just get a new one rather than try extend the life of anything that is manufactured. We are at the Zenith of the throw away culture at this point.

Our collective thinking with our heads in the throw away department has been mutated into throw away societies, governments and even countries. If it don't fit the needs move your factory somewhere else or get the US government to obliterate it. The definitions or words may or may not have be coined yet, but we always know them by their fruits.

When bushco invaded Iraq it had nothing to do with finding oil or anything else any cheaper. The lies and scare tactics that they used were also very weak, but for corporations, the chimp was their man. This whole bushco Juggernaut was about trying to reestablish to US-Corporate top down command as the dictator of how things were going to be. Bushco has failed that test miserably as well.

Our country and or system of corporation maybe slowly failing as of late but in the long run it will all work out, at least history would suggest that. Merciless competition was the world we born into, but I do not like it or advocate it either. My only point was that we don't even have that in the artificial structure we see in front of us.