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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently. Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages? They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference. The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.

Sounds like a safety net for Walmart. Why do you want that? Let those workers starve. Then, when they stop working for Walmart, the store will naturally raise wages.

You're good hearted. But for all yer complaining about Corporate America, you do your level best to strengthen its tenticles. Why?

Your point got completely lost there. Something about yay, let’s starve people.

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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently. Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages? They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference. The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.

If you are a Walmart shelf stocker trying to feed a family of four, it isn’t capitalism that put you in this situation, but a series of poor choices.

And for the record, Walmart pays very well for people who move up the ladder, like $75k - 130k for middle managers. Upwards of $300,000 for super store managers.

Trying to live of minimum wage with a family is hard, because it isn’t meant to be a career but an entrance into employment.

Not everyone can be a super store manager. For every manager, there are dozens of employees. They aren’t all going to get promoted, not because they’re incompetent but because there aren’t enough job openings.

So it isn’t “poor choices”, it’s simple mathematics, although the just world fallacy is comforting to people who are born on third base and think they hit a triple.

Anonymous wrote:Is the taxpayer going to cover the gap for the excessive theft?

With significantly lower prices there will probably be significantly lower theft. More people will be able to purchase what they need, and the resale value of stolen goods and their accompanying risks will decrease.

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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently. Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages? They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference. The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.

What, so now we gotta pay the 15 year old neighborhood pool lifeguard the same wage he would need to support a family of 4?

Why is it Walmart’s fault if someone doesn’t care to better themselves and make more than minimum wage?

Become a lifeguard in California. The municipalities are paying their govt lifeguards $400,000 a year. Welcome to gubmint.

Yeah. Too bad that haul your pasty white MAGA a** out of the water before you drown and beach yuorself like a whale.

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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently. Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages? They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference. The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.

What, so now we gotta pay the 15 year old neighborhood pool lifeguard the same wage he would need to support a family of 4?

Why is it Walmart’s fault if someone doesn’t care to better themselves and make more than minimum wage?

Become a lifeguard in California. The municipalities are paying their govt lifeguards $400,000 a year. Welcome to gubmint.

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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently. Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages? They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference. The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.

Sounds like a safety net for Walmart. Why do you want that? Let those workers starve. Then, when they stop working for Walmart, the store will naturally raise wages.

You're good hearted. But for all yer complaining about Corporate America, you do your level best to strengthen its tenticles. Why?

Didn’t this pie in the sky concept just fail in Kansas City due to rampant theft?

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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently. Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages? They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference. The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.

What, so now we gotta pay the 15 year old neighborhood pool lifeguard the same wage he would need to support a family of 4?

Why is it Walmart’s fault if someone doesn’t care to better themselves and make more than minimum wage?

Anonymous wrote:It’s a response to market failures. Grocery stores are owned by corporations and don’t want to invest in low income areas where margins are low.

For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?

Get bent.

The challenges faced by rural grocery stores are in large part driven by increased food transportation costs, and difficulty achieving economies of scale in a low volume environment due to low population density. Not to mention customers having to travel a longer distance.

This is very different than urban settings where crime and shoplifting are rampant and make it difficult for stores to be sustainable, and that is why people look at it differently. I’m not saying it’s right, but in the rural scenario the challenges are not as much seen as a moral failing.

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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently. Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages? They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference. The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.

If you are a Walmart shelf stocker trying to feed a family of four, it isn’t capitalism that put you in this situation, but a series of poor choices.

And for the record, Walmart pays very well for people who move up the ladder, like $75k - 130k for middle managers. Upwards of $300,000 for super store managers.

Trying to live of minimum wage with a family is hard, because it isn’t meant to be a career but an entrance into employment.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes fool. Food security is one of the most basic ways a nation can defend itself. If they only spent a fraction of what they spend on the military on food, our nation would be better and stronger

You seem fairly to extremely uninformed about America's food supply. Maybe you should research it a little.

Nice try. I'm am expert in the field

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Anonymous wrote:Yes fool. Food security is one of the most basic ways a nation can defend itself. If they only spent a fraction of what they spend on the military on food, our nation would be better and stronger

You seem fairly to extremely uninformed about America's food supply. Maybe you should research it a little.

It’s trash nutritional value and expensive as hell. That’s America’s food supply.

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Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.

Right. Our snowflake members of the military aren’t nearly tough enough to survive in civilian society, like you are.

Anonymous wrote:Is the taxpayer going to cover the gap for the excessive theft?

Don't worry about it. The Trumps (hi Jared!) are robbing taxpayers blind. Gravy Train!

Is the taxpayer going to cover the gap for the excessive theft?