Tear down the Wal
Wal-Mart is one of my most hated corporate entities. They drive local business out, create horrible jobs, and are an eyesore and blight. Shopping there makes a person pasty. In compter-fake-internetland a DOS is a denial of service attack, in which a hax0r does something to make a server unusable by others for a period of time, generally without actually cracking the system.
The other day, while munching on tacos at Cha! Cha! Cha! and watching a lady rummaging through her purse to find the wallet that wasn’t there I got to thinking about Wal-Mart and some of their nastier practices, such as lowering prices below cost to drive others without massive reserves out of business, I wondered how best to hurt them. To me it seems that the DOS is the best method. How does one take what is learned from the info-super-freeway and apply it to brick-and-mortar reality? Well, my thought is that one could shop Wal-Mart and fill a cart or two with their cheap crap, wait in their hateful lines, and upon reaching the front realize that ‘oh! I left my wallet in the car!’ Then never come back. Time is lost to them because they need to check you out and return the merchandise. There’s a slim hope that the people behind you will become so annoyed that they go somewhere that treats them like humans, but they’ve already demonstrated that saving a few dollars from the bottom line is more important than a dignified community and self-respect. Disclaimer: this is a purely philosophical suggestion, possibly to be used later in a work of fiction, we all know that among those actions which are immoral and illegal, most of all must or should be the intentional hurting of the international bringer of shitty jobs and lowering of standards.
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Why do people hate Walmart so much? It’s cheap. Yeah, it’s soulless, but do you really want soul with your kitchen appliances? It makes things more expensive. In any case, there’s a much easier way than your “DOS” approach; just don’t shop there.
sure, I don’t shop there. I never have. I think I was fairly clear on why I despise WalMart. They do horrible things to a community. It goes much further than your shirt or your kitchen, WalMart strikes at the heart of the community. It destroys local businesses, and creates menial labor jobs in their place. It supplants any local flavor by doing this, instead bringing in truckloads of generic goods. This is true for many of the chain and ‘big box’ stores, Target, K-Mart, Home Depot. One major difference is their method of competition, which is not just immoral but illegal (selling below retail to drive out competitors has been documented), and their labor practices, which are oppresive and prejudiced. The reason for the mention of the DOS approach is that in order to slow the juggernaut opponents need to actively oppose the machine.