Reply #62: Free choice ...

[RoyGBiv]

Yes, we all have the choice to be as obnoxious as we want to be.

And regarding your thinly veiled jab at the end, I believe you are intentionally not paying attention to what others are saying about why this is a bad idea. It has nothing, not one single thing, to do with "the property of a corporation."

Someone else in one of these threads said it best. What comes out of disagreements like this on DU is the class-ism otherwise well-meaning progressives have incorporated into their own thinking. If your only goal is to annoy or otherwise harm Wal-Mart, you've got your priorities all out of whack. The goal is, or should be, to assist the workers. Why do we hate Wal-Mart? I personally hate Wal-Mart mostly because of how it treats it employees, but also how it rapes the communities in which it establishes itself. I want the company to treat them better, pay them more, and invigorate the communities. I'm not going to do that by giving employees more work to do when nothing inherent to that work will force the company to increase any sort of worker benefit. You may as well argue to buy more from Wal-Mart. Using the logic you presented in this thread, it would have the same effect: more business means more work, which, again using your logic, means more hours, possibly overtime, and increased benefits. No, that's not reality either.