Re:Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats
by bencollier49 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:36AM
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This is interesting. Normally people say "innumerable" in a sentence like this, meaning "too many to count", but in this case there's a malapropism which literally reverses the meaning whilst keeping the sense of the original almost intact.
Re:Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats
by rubicon33 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @05:16PM
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Hah, that is interesting. I think I make that mistake because I'm a software developer an enums are a thing so my brain mixes up innumerable with enumerable.
Re:Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats
by bencollier49 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:03AM
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I guess it's perfectly cromulent in the sentence as well.
Re:Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats
by rsuelzer on Friday June 04, 2021 @10:54PM
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This, in my opinion, is the largest role of government in a capitalist society. Capitalism is not sustainable without guard rails. By design, a company will always pass costs onto society if it can.
The government has an obligation to ensure negative economic costs are paid by the producers and consumers of goods and services.
An example of this would be Walmart for years relying almost exclusively on Medicaid benefits for their employees healthcare. Walmart is hardly the worst company in terms of passing economic costs on to others or future generations. But, the point is, that unless the government forces a company to pay the true costs of doing business it's always going to result in market distortions.
It's a design flaw of capitalism, which is actually easy to correct within an equitable political system. However, this is much more rare than it ought be.
Short of some breakup, or government intervention, what can be done? The system is designed to reward those who find the best market fit. The problem is, there's no brake pedal on their growth. They can absorb entire industries.