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Wal-Mart and their ilk maximize their profits by labor practices that I consider unsavory. Some in this thread call for government restrictions to prevent this. Others roll out a variety of free market "greed is good" cliches.
I choose neither side. I call upon Americans to act like Americans, according to the values that that is supposed to represent. These values are directly derived from our ancestors; to whit, Moses the Lawgiver, and the Athenian vision of the Gods from Olympus.
I used to live in the Bay Area. And, I used to get into trouble all the time saying stuff like this. Seems my cultural sensitivity was not up to what people expect. My blood ancestors were a bunch of savages who painted their faces with woad. My more recent blood ancestors accepted the values that I mention above because they're better, not because they invented them.