- Corporate Blight: Wal-Mart

by Tim Aiken watching. You drop that Then they raise the prices CONTRIBUTOR smile for just an instant, because they now have a a and you are out of there. local monopoly. This People in small Even in the most casualof works for alittle while until

townig are making their settings, ifyousomehow —_ everybody who used to voices heard. They want — |etitslipthatyouareina _ work at the now bankrupt a WakMart. With their bottom-of-the-pack-low- companies runs out of ptitive low prices and —_income-job, then turn in money. Then Wal-Mart jobs that theymay —_ your smock and get out. stops making a profit.

With all the money they made in the town, they use it to start a new branch in thenextarea. The new town is just overjoyed. ‘Finally, a Wal-Mart inmy town,’ local — idiots might say. They will enjoy a period of boom. But as for the people in the first town, well they are just fucked. Wal- Mart ran all the local businesses to the ince most children There has been a grave and then took off are kidnapped to workin —_—_wildfirespreading across | whenthe money was thesé#weatshops. They this continent -- Wal- gone. are alste getting the skills Marts popping up every- If you want to save they need to be exploited — where. Maybecallingita yourself the trouble of by companies such as wild fire was a mistake, having a Wal-Martina : Nike in later life. Skilled — maybe it would be more community near you, but % labour in that part of the suitable tc be compared to _ still want to get the overall % world must take home avirus. Huh, wellavirus Wal-Marteffect, all : twenty cents a day -- if attacks a cell, stealing all you have to do is the : they don’t stoptousethe —_ ofits resources. Gets following: bathroom foraminuteor —_ enough energy from the kidnap the kid next door two. | first cell to move to the and make him do all your ¢ ‘Wal-Mart also second. When all the dirty work, when he turns

prides itself onintroducing _ good stuff from the first 18 send him to prison Big Brother toallemploy- —_ cell is gone, the cell dies where he can earn big

ces. Nothing says wel- along with the virus. money doing prison ‘#9 my store like Wal-Mart on the other laundry, tell the CIA all

forcing'some guy tostand —_ hand moves into a town your neighbors most

by the door, forceasmile —_ and undersells the local intimate secrets, and

and pretend he cares businesses. They continue _ finally unleash the biologi-

about your life. All the this until all the local cal epidemic at every

while Big Brother is companies are bankrupt. major international airport. oO