Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene "likes" the Mossad-did-it Theory

On 5 Mar 2021 14:44:07 -0000, ajohnstone <[email protected]>
wrote:

>And that there is no even playing field, so who cares, eh? Let the 
>heavyweight boxer challenge the feather-weight boxer. After all, it is the 
>same sport and the same rules, isn't it?
>
>As mentioned in the link, suppliers are forced to lower their wages bill, 
>lay off staff or out-source over-seas to meet the low price demands of 
>Walmart. Sweat-shops in the US or Myanmar, why care?

And the suppliers are all poor, cottage industries whose owners can
barely survive.

>
>Walmart signs up businesses for contracts where the company then produces 
>the material ordered. Walmart then demands a lower price and leverages 
>another company against them. It is a race to the bottom for the 
>suppliers.
>

It's a prod to require efficient operation.

> And the impact is upon all those mom and pop stores that aren't able to 
>compete. These are eventually put out of business, main street shopping 
>dries up and small towns shrivel up.
>

And poor people in big cities can buy things cheaply, and live on a
modest income.

>Certainly don't apply any government regulation to level things up.
>

Government regulation virtually always advantages somebody, and it's
usually some rich interest against some other rich interest.

Example:  "renewable energy."

>I do find the Walmart field to fork logistics approach appealing, 
>displaying how easy allocation of resources can easily be directed to 
>where demand is.
>

Efficiency has big payoffs.

Both for the rich who find a way to operate more efficiently (think
Jeff Bezos) and people of modest incomes who can get buy.

.John
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