Nathair/|\ Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Isn't their legitimately earned money? Don't they have the right to do with it as they please? Aren't they donating two billion over the next four years to feed the hungry in America? So what if they use this method to choose where to spend three quarters of a percent of that money?
katherine the great Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Isn't their legitimately earned money? Don't they have the right to do with it as they please? Aren't they donating two billion over the next four years to feed the hungry in America? So what if they use this method to choose where to spend three quarters of a percent of that money?Sure. Just like its our right to not like their business tactics or the way they treat their employees or their personal attitudes towards the unfortunate and just like its our right to not support them. No one on this board disputes their "legal" right to do any of the things they do (or don't do.)
Bsix Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Sure. Just like its our right to not like their business tactics or the way they treat their employees or their personal attitudes towards the unfortunate and just like its our right to not support them. No one on this board disputes their "legal" right to do any of the things they do (or don't do.)I could think of a list a country mile long of worse corporate citizens in the United States than WalMart. I have observed that the frothing at the mouth about Walmart is often subjective, self-interested, and (at times) irrational.Six
elguanteloko Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 The Church does not have "profits". The Church has donations and tithes, etc. It gets money for a service ("making people happy" as you called it) so they are profits. There's nothing wrong with this by itself, btw, so I don't get the reluctance to put Church and profit as being related.
elguanteloko Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 there are needy human beings in the city where the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ Himself are? I don't get it.
urroner Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 It gets money for a service ("making people happy" as you called it) so they are profits. There's nothing wrong with this by itself, btw, so I don't get the reluctance to put Church and profit as being related.So, most not-for-profit corporations have profits, interesting.
elguanteloko Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 So, most not-for-profit corporations have profits, interesting.Of course! But you should change that to "So, most not-for-personal-profit corporations have profits, interesting". Most in the Church don't get "profit" but the Church (the organization) still does. He was talking about the organization, not individuals, so I was talking about organizations and not individuals, also.
Zakuska Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 Ah the Good old... WALMART is the Devils store montra has reared its ugly head again.
BCSpace Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 I dunno. If a PR stunt can create more wealth for Wal-Mart, perhaps there will be more money available to help the poor. Couldn't it be said that this corporation helps the poor as much or more than other businesses and individuals of similar wealth? And if you claim they should be helping more, is it yours to decide or force? There's nothing in the gospel that says it is.I used to work for Wal-Mart (for a short time) and I can't see this as their motive. There is in and of itself nothing wrong with the profit motive Its just that I am not ready to nominate Wal-Mart for sainthood yet.My point is that the profit motive creates more wealth even for the poor than any other motive. I think that's why it remains viable and even necessary in the LoC and as a basic gospel principle.Ah the Good old... WALMART is the Devils store montra has reared its ugly head again.I like WalMart. But I prefer Sams or Costco when I can get it there.
krose Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 Ah the Good old... WALMART is the Devils store montra has reared its ugly head again.Funny, that's exactly how it's known in my home: The Devil Store. I don't know what a "montra" is, but it sounds as if it might have an ugly head to rear. Is it anything like Mothra?
SilverKnight Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 Funny, that's exactly how it's known in my home: The Devil Store. I don't know what a "montra" is, but it sounds as if it might have an ugly head to rear. Is it anything like Mothra?Not that either.Wal-Mart is less like a biblical demon or Japanese megamonster, and more like a Lovecraftian cosmic horror.Wal-Mart is the Cthulhu of the business world.And KtG is right, the children of Sam Walton are the most appallingly greedy, selfish, miserly people on planet earth.
krose Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 And KtG is right, the children of Sam Walton are the most appallingly greedy, selfish, miserly people on planet earth.Yep.Remember how Sam, himself, used to make a big deal about selling American-made products? It was a point of great pride for him. Those were the days.
Mola Ram Suda Ram Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 And KtG is right, the children of Sam Walton are the most appallingly greedy, selfish, miserly people on planet earth.I thought that was reserved for the Clintons?
Facsimile 3 Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 To be fair it should be done on a per capita basis but then again...Don't worry we have that covered. Salt Lake County has a very high number of Wal Marts per captia .
ebeddoulos Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 It is confirmed HERE that SLC will receive the $1,000,000 award and that Ogden was one of six cities to receive $100,000.A big hhhoooaaahhh to these cities and let the voicing of the sour grapes commence.
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