#trilema | 2015-07-11

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luke-jr?

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yes luke-jr

00:02

an entire den of fraudsters and con men they got going there, not like phantomcircuit's anyone else than the bitcoinica thief etc.

00:06

mircea_popescu

" As Wal-Mart gets the lions share of food stamp transfers [EBT cash and food] than this operation amounts to a 19th century Appalachian coal mine with its own company store, with over half of the employees spending mostor even more thantheir salary at the Wal-Mart register, literally a captive market and labor force in one."

00:06

mircea_popescu

this is actually an excellent point - walmart is not a shop, it's a shit circuit.

00:07

decimation

it's been well covered in the us media that walmart 'arbitrages' usg benefits/slaves into profit

00:09

decimation

mr. lafound makes a novel point (to me) that the rich folk (think jwz) are equally complict, thinking that saving $0.25 on eggs at walmart is purely neutral

00:11

mircea_popescu

i dun think this is much of a novel point. fundamental point. "be the change you wish to see" etc.

00:14

hanbot

people are going to be sucked into convenience > quality (sanity) so long as they can't appreciate what quality is. i had a visitor in romania who had never seen good egg yolks, thought they were "suspicious"

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00:00	decimation	luke-jr?
00:00	mircea_popescu	yes luke-jr
00:02	mircea_popescu	an entire den of fraudsters and con men they got going there, not like phantomcircuit's anyone else than the bitcoinica thief etc.
00:06	mircea_popescu	" As Wal-Mart gets the lions share of food stamp transfers [EBT cash and food] than this operation amounts to a 19th century Appalachian coal mine with its own company store, with over half of the employees spending mostor even more thantheir salary at the Wal-Mart register, literally a captive market and labor force in one."
00:06	mircea_popescu	this is actually an excellent point - walmart is not a shop, it's a shit circuit.
00:07	decimation	it's been well covered in the us media that walmart 'arbitrages' usg benefits/slaves into profit
00:09	decimation	mr. lafound makes a novel point (to me) that the rich folk (think jwz) are equally complict, thinking that saving $0.25 on eggs at walmart is purely neutral
00:11	mircea_popescu	i dun think this is much of a novel point. fundamental point. "be the change you wish to see" etc.
00:14	hanbot	people are going to be sucked into convenience > quality (sanity) so long as they can't appreciate what quality is. i had a visitor in romania who had never seen good egg yolks, thought they were "suspicious"
00:14	assbot	[MPEX] [S.MPOE] 52300 @ 0.00053341 = 27.8973 BTC [+]
00:15	decimation	in the us, to be against 'walmart profits' is to be labeled a socialist. it's rarely the case that someone points out the degree to which walmart profits are dependent on socialism themselves
00:17	hanbot	right, because why proclaim something that might lead to having to do more work
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02:06	Naphex	04:14 <+hanbot> people are going to be sucked into convenience > quality (sanity) so long as they can't appreciate what quality is. i had a visitor in romania who had never seen good egg yolks, thought they were "suspicious <- Happens pretty often
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02:07	assbot	[MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68550 @ 0.00051063 = 35.0037 BTC [-]
02:11	punkman	how do you decide a good egg yolk?
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03:56	jurov	punkman: it has vivid yellow color
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