Originally posted on 03/22/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by PAULYPOKER View Post
Walmart has cornered the market,there used to be laws that stopped such machines.........

Walmart is part of the machine designed to eliminate the middle class.....

Most People don't have much of a choice besides Walmart...........

The stranglehold of the machine ending middle class wages is FORCING people to buy at Walmart......

Don't try to paint me a pretty picture............

This is bad for the people any way you look at it............
laws that used to stop such machines?

You're right. They were called the laws of the free market. The laws of economics.

We don't follow those laws anymore. We haven't in quite some time.

But of course those weren't the laws you were referring to I'm sure. You were probably referring to the Sherman Anti-Trust laws or their variants. So let me educate you about that....

You have this hatred of elites. These blue-blood status whores who run everything in this country. Well these "laws" that "stopped such machines" that you're referring to? They were WRITTEN BY THE ELITES.

And yes, it was to stop these machines. But not because they were looking out for YOU. Because they were looking out for themselves.

Do you know anything about JD Rockefeller? We hear the name Rockefeller in America today and we think wealth and power. We think "elite."

JD Rockefeller's dad was a broke-down drunk loser. The type of dead-beat that gave other deadbeats a bad name. Young JD had to drop out of high school to get a job just so he and his mother could eat a piece of meat one a month and keep from freezing death. He came from NOTHING. And that's how he built his oil company. From NOTHING.

So how did he build it?

Well back then kerosene as a fuel/heating/lighting source was highly volatile and dangerous. And it came that way because the blue blood elites who owned all the oil wells were too fukking greedy to refine it properly to create a safe and quality product. What did the hell did they care if people were dying in house fires all over the country? So Rockefeller stepped in with a safe/stable refined brand of kerosine. He set a standard. That's why he named his company Standard Oil. And with the best product at the best price, he made himself a fortune.

He wasn't elite. He MADE himself elite. And what was his reward? Every blue-blooded American tycoon's hatred. And what did they do with that hatred? While JD was busy building his oil empire with the highest quality product at the most affordable price, his "competition" was busy greasing the wheels of the U.S. government to declare his company a "monopoly" so they could break it apart and take what they thought rightfully belonged to them.

And why did they do that?

Because they were whiny pussies like you who couldn't accept defeat with enough honor to work harder for victory in the future. They didn't want to have put forth the effort to become better at the game, no, they just thought it'd be easier to pay the refs to tilt the game in their favor. And so that's what they did. They paid the lobbyists, they paid the politicians and even more to the politicians who appointed the judges. And they got the Sherman anti-trust acts. And did it improve wages or the standard of living for ordinary Americans?

NOPE.

It just gave you reason to believe the robber barons were responsible for your failures. Because no one ever remembers how miserable life was before the greats come along, all they remember is how much more the greats have than they do.

You want more in this life?

Then make it happen.

You do have the power.

Or maybe you don't.

Either way, no one owes you a god damned thing. Get that through your fukking skull and stop acting like a goddamned child.