The High Cost of Low Prices

The American Conservative ^ | May 22, 2006 Issue | Marian Kester Coombs

[ozzymandus]

What a bunch of crap. I skimmed this article, and when I hit the pickle story, I knew this was old, tired, propaganda. Anybody who quotes jeff foxworthy needs his head examined.

[palmer]

I can't prove that, but it seems like it takes a lot of BTUs to get a barrel of oil from 2 tons of rocks. Then the resultant oil needs a lot more BTUs of processing to be useable. I'll have to do some more calculations.

[Alberta's Child]

Yes, but how much are these companies paying for the natural gas they're using? And since they're right there in Alberta instead of thousands of miles away, there's no need to transport it over a long distance via pipeline.

[lucysmom]

I can not think of the last time a TV quit working on me. I have replaced them for other reasons, but not because they quit working. I was a little perplexed on what happen, but never gave a thought that we were accually going backward in technology, taking fairly simple and reliable technology, and building it so cheap it will not last a year.

The same thing happened to me, two new TVs in a row (different brands). The second one lasted just past the warnenty. Now I have a small color TV that was at least 10 years old when I bought it at a garage sale. So far its been working for me longer than the two new ones combined.

[B-Chan]

1. WalMart is like slavery?
In that both capitalism and slavery depend upon the commodification of human beings, yes. Socialism is also "like slavery" in this sense.

2. Are you F-n retarded?
Yes.

3. Human bondage and the scourge that it was in the American South HAS NOTHING to do with WalMart.
See reply 1, above.

4. You aren't forced to shop there
I don't.

5. You aren't forced to work there.
I don't.

6. Go back to DU.

B-Chan
[Freeper] since Jul 18, 1998

MikefromOhio
[Freeper] since Jun 29, 2004

No thanks, n00b. I was here first.

[TexasKamaAina]

BTW - your comrade Willie Green has been banned

So what did he do?

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

dates don't mean crap.

It's what you type.

And you talk like a DU'er.

Have fun wtih that troll.

[Dialup Llama]

I can not think of the last time a TV quit working on me. I have replaced them for other reasons, but not because they quit working. I was a little perplexed on what happen, but never gave a thought that we were accually going backward in technology, taking fairly simple and reliable technology, and building it so cheap it will not last a year.

Don't get me started. What has happened to phones is awful. The audio quality on them are very poor. Esp cell phones which are really bad. I've got an oldschool ATT trimline touchtone that I protect carefully, knowing that I can't get anything near that quality today.

[CIB-173RDABN]

We (the consumers) decided the most important thing about any product is price. Not quaility, not durability, not ease of repair, but price. The invisible hand of capitalism see to it that the collected "we" get what we want.

[ottersnot]

Wal-Mart owes its success to being the first retailer to source in a big way from China.

Kind of like Bill and Hillary, but legal.