Doug Henwood wrote:
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> The point is this: payment for services involves mutually agreeable
> exchanges. They are not manifestations of power, as some would say.
> No one is forced to work at Wal-Mart; people who choose to work there
> do so because they prefer employment there to other circumstances.
>
Really, there must be a defense of Wal-Mart someplace that doesn't contain anything this obscene.
Rhetorically, it's interesting that the author has knocked over several clay pigeons (such as the professor's bumper sticker or the whine about greeters) before he puts in this classical defense of capitalism. Careless readers won't notice that the subject has changed from defending Wal-Mart to defending capitalism as such.
Carrol