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Re:Costco Capitalism by Pfhreak on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:02PM (#22295939)
Yes, though people generally recognized the good thing they had and worked hard to maintain it.
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Re:Costco Capitalism by numpad0 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:13AM (#22296254)
Human diversity disallows even good-bad scale to align or converge well...there must be their secret sauce somewhere.
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Re:Costco Capitalism by r00fus on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:20AM (#22296278)
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Re:Costco Capitalism by numpad0 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:55AM (#22297060)
Standards for “good things” eventually branches into factions with conflicting axes or criteria.

Arbitrarily set and static point of reference can solve it e.g. a bible or a well though out system. I don’t think the former is the CostCo’s thing so I’m wondering what would be.

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Re:Costco Capitalism by modo_mario on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:49AM (#22297505)
... How about we do the smart thing here and keep it simple. Notably better = good Better than what? Better than the competition in this sector in this general area. There. I don't think it requires an investigation into secret sauce.
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Re:Costco Capitalism by numpad0 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:10AM (#22298159)
> but my experience has been it gets taken advantage of pretty quickly if you don't ...
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