Future of corporatism: Wal-Mart tries out a new wage in Mexico: $0 an hour (is this what's gonna happen here a

[FlungPup]

It's charity. Kinda warms the heart, like a steak left out in the sun for a few days, but warms it none the less.

[Shinobi]

Lol FlungPup!

[GunJ]

The real question is - why the hell does no one care ?

The society seems oblivious to such practices.
Why the hell do I have to read such stuff on a conspiracy forum ?

The world is shite sometimes ...

[FastTadpole]

Alternatives (competition) are becomes less tangible option due to various factors such as price and access to necessary goods but it does need to be fed by at least an initial shift in consumer affiliation in the locale. The WAL-Mart does leverage its retail distribution and other corporate entities have since followed suit to compete By design, no doubt. Chinese manufacturing costs are going nowhere but up, although they are kept as the adventagous option due to regulatory measures.

The best play for the public under the current box set up by the monetary conglomerate does present an opportunity for local manufacturing that fuels a grassroots retail sector, but only if the consumer base would real eyes the true repercussions of their dollar votes. The consumer would need to step in to enforce anti-monopolism, if only to protect themselves.

Admittedly, an uphill battle but not out of the question despite the influx of poverty and the substantive, and growing, market share asserted by government spending -- which includes taxation, regulation and subsidy.

For any real, lasting, conjectural dent on the current instantiation of this perversion of supply and demand a free market needs to redefine economy, exchange and the reward mechanism of the dollar, in conjunction with law, augmented by education and supplanted by morality.

Sure it can't done all at once but, first and foremost, a goal has to be set to be attained.

[icosaface]

I agree, we need to change our course or suffer the consequences of our inaction.

[thokling]

For those of you who have hard-ons about blaming corporations for this mess, I invite you to re-read the post, particularly the point that states:

Quote:The use of unsalaried youths is legal in Mexico...

Mexico has declared it legal for youths to volunteer for corporations. Walmart only works under those rules.

Also keep in mind that corporations are supposed to use any means necessary to ensure continued profits. Don't blame corporations - blame the countries that encourage corporations to continue to take advantage of people. Corporations technically don't exist beyond a piece of paper - they're imaginary things.

Of course, then, it can be argued that governments are corporate, and are also imaginary in nature. Whose imaginations are they figments of? The people's. So, in reality, it's the people under those governments that allow these alleged "atrocities" to continue by not changing government.

In other words, you have nothing to complain about, because the majority accepts such states of existence. If you don't like it, change it - otherwise, accept it and work within the system.

What other options exist?

Edit: It seems that MSNBC removed this article from its site. Another version can be found at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/20...-work.html, and others via a Web search for walmart mexico "SUPERAMA THANKS YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING" msnbc.

[IanPotter]

The British 'government' has been testing out economic slavery for a while:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/n...employment

"We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".

Maybe we should pretend to hang them upside down from lamp-posts?

[FastTadpole]

Hope no one here @ConCen did any shopping there this Christmas.

.. you know better than that.