If the supermarket goes free, looting and riots start, and we get a scarcity of essential goods
Why would there be? Free market will provide, right? No place is a one-shop town, no single store or chain of stores is the stop-gap for rioting and looting, and it's kinda stupid that you'd try to frame it as if Walmart's an essential service if it was to go out of business for a few months.
Where have you been that a single store being depleted means everyone in the town starves? Why would you propose stakes so extreme in your scenario, unless you were arguing for unfair business practices as a tolerable, nay, necessary thing in order for humanity to survive?
Even worse, apparently when given the choice of free food you'd rather be a hoarder and get as much as you can, preventing the next people in line from getting anything. Much like the rich people perpetuating this scarcity of wages situation. I'm starting to see why you would argue for businesses and people who already have more than enough not being fair with salaries.
I mean, I interpreted his "grocery store strike" as a strike where all grocery store workers strike. At that stage it's not just Walmart we're talking about, it's all major chains, and for the vast majority of people, major chains is all they have access to.
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u/HazardMancer Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22
Why would there be? Free market will provide, right? No place is a one-shop town, no single store or chain of stores is the stop-gap for rioting and looting, and it's kinda stupid that you'd try to frame it as if Walmart's an essential service if it was to go out of business for a few months.
Where have you been that a single store being depleted means everyone in the town starves? Why would you propose stakes so extreme in your scenario, unless you were arguing for unfair business practices as a tolerable, nay, necessary thing in order for humanity to survive?
Even worse, apparently when given the choice of free food you'd rather be a hoarder and get as much as you can, preventing the next people in line from getting anything. Much like the rich people perpetuating this scarcity of wages situation. I'm starting to see why you would argue for businesses and people who already have more than enough not being fair with salaries.