[lbo-talk] Wal-Mart

Eugene Vilensky evilensky at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 21:16:57 PST 2004


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:22:30 -0500, Jon Johanning <zenner41 at mac.com> wrote:


> I don't know how many times I've heard the last few days about Wal-Mart
> playing the role that Ford did back in the 1910s, as the leading US
> corporation. If a giant corporation either made or sold condoms for
> shtupping pigs and did it as impressively as Wal-Mart rakes in the
> dough, it would be on the front cover of The Economist, too.

Wasn't Ford famous for paying good wages and equal wages to african americans or am I spouting idealistic apocrypha?



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