Indians Take To Streets Against Wal-Mart - Forbes.com
Aw, that's mean! That was my second reaction to this article.
The first of course was, "oh those poor indian workers losing their jobs to Wal-mart" That's what they want. Really why it's mean is that people just don't want to change the way they do things. If someone comes up with a brilliant business plan that revolutionizes business and culture, we shouldn't freak out so easily just because that's not what we're used to. It's not like Wal-mart is destroying jobs! They're only creating as many as are destroyed. There's always places to work for Wal-mart. And, if people don't like working for Wal-mart. Then they're going to have to get innovative and creative! Sounds mean, maybe, that's capitalism. Not real friendly, but honestly not that mean if you really look at the options.
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Yokanchi
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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there, i'm commenting.
haven't read the thing yet, but will.... ;)
Bottom line, if enough people really didn't want Walmart in the area, they wouldn't shop there and it would go out of business. If there aren't enough boycotters to accomplish that, then the protesters can't claim to speak the will of the people. One could argue perhaps that the people don't know what's best for them. Okay, so who does and how do we know they do and should they be allowed to make the decisions for everyone else? There's a big difference between saying, "I think Walmart is bad," and "Walmart must not be allowed to build here".
Wal-Mart is almost strictly an American thing. It isn't something that can be imposed on another society. India has everything setup for their market to work and that doesn't include Wal-Mart.
"Brilliant business plan"? I guess you're right. It saves a whole lot of money to hire people part time so you don't have to give them benefits, weasel local governments into subsidizing you, and lay off the older workers who get paid more.
See the following links:
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/workers/
http://walmartwatch.com/
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