Harry Pollard wrote:
>
> Arthur wrote:
>
> >Walmart. Home Depot. Good prices and reasonable service but say good bye
> >to your local merchants who are of your community and often donate time and
> >energy to local causes.
>
> But how much does it cost the community to get that time and energy?
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This is a good question.
It suggests to me the need to reinternalize all the
"eternalities" of economic activity.
I would like to see the schools which train CPAs
expand their purview to audit all aspects of an
enterprise's existence in the social and natural world.
This might mean that accountants would need to learn
organic chemistry -- or at least that they learn how
to tell when an organic chemist is "trying to
pull a fast one" on them.
But, for Harry:
You know the other question, yes:
What are the costs of Walmart to the community?
Just because I can buy a widget at Walmart for $0.29 instead of
$0.49 at the old local merchant who has been driven out
of business by Walmart, does not mean that my whole
town has not been rendered economically unviable by
Walmart's having moved into the "community".
Penny wise but pound oblivious.
--
As Creon says at the end of Sophocles' _Antigone_:
All understood, too late.
\brad mccormick
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that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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