Well that’s what the courts are for. They’re breaking an obvious law, so why states are refusing to prosecute us beyond me. (Cough cough campaign contributions to the Governor on down. Cough cough)
Carlson's interesting, traditionally when it comes to conservatives I agree with their economic positions while disagreeing with most of their other positions. It's the exact opposite with Carlson, most of his other positions are decent but his economic positions are garbage.
He's a capitalist, he just believes in making concessions to preserve the power of his class. He knows that if no concessions are made and workers suffer too much, they will revolt and strip him of his power.
Please discover at least as much class consciousness as Tucker Carlson?
Dollar stores are amazing. Lots of shit you might need a cheap and/or disposable one of, for just a dollar. The biggest threat to dollar stores today is inflation. Wouldn't be surprised if $5 stores become popular soon.
Yes and no. Dollar stores might sell a cup for a dollar but the department store down the road sells 3 for $2. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean you are actually getting a good deal in bulk.
And you’ll burn more than the cost difference in fuel for the round trip if you live in a rural area.
Economics is more than just a price tag on the shelf.
Every time I read/hear lira, I remember this "learn Italian" tape my friend had stuck on his car's stereo:
*Quanto costa?*
*Venticincomila lire.*
Since the tape was stuck, the radio wouldn't work. So it was either no music or learn Italian when riding with him.
Carlson rarely gets to the direct point of what he’s trying to say these days, and plays way too much “I’m just asking questions”, but IF I’m being charitable with what I think he’s saying, I think your comment would be the point he’s trying to make…maybe. Why are corporate dollar stores and Walmarts everywhere - and often the only choice for even rural communities rather than a bunch of locally owned businesses where people could get almost everything that they need? Again, I’m just attempting to interpret what I’m guessing what he may have been attempting to say, but I realize that he may just be going straight anti capitalist soon enough.
dollar stores do the typical bad corporate skim off the top practices such as running skeleton crews of staff, purposely keeping the climate control low to save pennies while making staff have to wear winter jackets in the store, not updating sticker prices to scam consumers (which of course they don't care about, they consider the fees they are eventually forced to pay by state attorneys general a cost of doing business as is prevalent with other large corporations in the US)
they are one of the products of a nation which has become a soulless economic zone, focused solely on enrichment of shareholders while shrinkflating and breaking laws where it ends up being worth the regulatory fines.
Rural communities used to have local businesses. Where the shop owner was a local and the profit margin largely stayed in the community.
Now we have big box stores and dollar stores. Whatever profit is generated is vacuumed up to corporate office parks hundreds or thousands of miles away and to copy shareholders around the world. Where none of the profit except that paid to a skeleton crew stays in the community. And it is important to mention that dollar stores are ugly, roach and rat infested shitholes, but we have a serious problem here with rural economies being completely broken and people want to defend this rather outrageous status quo simply because dollar stores make money. No. I'm tired of rural communities being the economic whipping boys. Glorified economic colonies so there can be nice corporate office parks several states away.
I think he was referring more to the quality of the product and what that does to the people who shop there. This goes back to the old tale with $30 boots that last a month and $100 boots that last a decade.
Except in this case it’s $1 cups that last a year or $2 cups that look nice last a lifetime. Dollar general sells a low level of quality that requires the customer to return again and again. It’s the consumers fault, yes, but we can also recognize the role dollar stores play in the feedback loop.
Think of it like payday loan service providers. We aren’t in favor of banning them but we are absolutely not hoping that more of them appear.
He’s pointing out a symptom of a problem just prescribing the incorrect solution.
>lots of Dollar stores are inherently bad
Ah, yes, having lots of cheap, accessible food and other products is inherently bad, for, uh, reasons.
Totally not classist.
I also like how nothing he said involves the actual economy, just stupid opinions.
I also like how the question asker is going for the personal attack based on stereotyping instead of an actual rebuttal of libertarian arguments and positions.
Ah yes, dollar stores…one of the things that — along with readily-available central heat & air, water treatment and food refrigeration — means even the poorest Americans enjoy a standard of living higher than 70% of the world’s population.
I’m curious what his alternative is.
For a while I lived out in the boonies where the nearest store was a dollar general. Did a lot of my shopping there in between trips to town for big grocery shopping.
Is that man honestly, and with a straight face trying to argue against economic theory on the basis of personal subjective opinion and personal morality (that he may or may not have literally made up on the fly)?
How TF do people even take that seriously?
That entire Tweet seems like a non sequitur.
“Dollar stores make your life worse because they are ugly, therefore they’re evil, therefore free market capitalism is evil.”
God forbid those people in the middle of nowhere have convenient access to a modern general store.
Some of them have had an issue intentionally mislabeling prices: https://youtu.be/uE5THiD-kTk?si=4uTn_ffATRrYlP01
Sounds like a job for... government.
Well that’s what the courts are for. They’re breaking an obvious law, so why states are refusing to prosecute us beyond me. (Cough cough campaign contributions to the Governor on down. Cough cough)
Carlson's interesting, traditionally when it comes to conservatives I agree with their economic positions while disagreeing with most of their other positions. It's the exact opposite with Carlson, most of his other positions are decent but his economic positions are garbage.
His social positions are bad too. I'd say he's closer to a tankie than anything else (though still not quite there exactly)
It’s because he’s a NatSoc. TC isn’t right wing like most conservatives, he’s a conservative leftist. Dude lives for the boot.
Exactly the same as Donald Trump. It kills me when leftist call Trump a fascist. He is by far the most liberal Republican ever elected president.
He's the first president to openly support gay marriage BEFORE his first term.
He's a capitalist, he just believes in making concessions to preserve the power of his class. He knows that if no concessions are made and workers suffer too much, they will revolt and strip him of his power. Please discover at least as much class consciousness as Tucker Carlson?
Dollar stores are amazing. Lots of shit you might need a cheap and/or disposable one of, for just a dollar. The biggest threat to dollar stores today is inflation. Wouldn't be surprised if $5 stores become popular soon.
Yes and no. Dollar stores might sell a cup for a dollar but the department store down the road sells 3 for $2. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean you are actually getting a good deal in bulk.
And you’ll burn more than the cost difference in fuel for the round trip if you live in a rural area. Economics is more than just a price tag on the shelf.
In my country 1 lira stores used to be common. Now you can only buy 4 shopping bags for 1 lira. Nothing else
Every time I read/hear lira, I remember this "learn Italian" tape my friend had stuck on his car's stereo: *Quanto costa?* *Venticincomila lire.* Since the tape was stuck, the radio wouldn't work. So it was either no music or learn Italian when riding with him.
I honestly can’t even think of the angle he’s going for here…..like who do the Dollar stores typically cater too?
They are the only thing in small towns until a Walmart gets built. So I guess… small towns?
Carlson rarely gets to the direct point of what he’s trying to say these days, and plays way too much “I’m just asking questions”, but IF I’m being charitable with what I think he’s saying, I think your comment would be the point he’s trying to make…maybe. Why are corporate dollar stores and Walmarts everywhere - and often the only choice for even rural communities rather than a bunch of locally owned businesses where people could get almost everything that they need? Again, I’m just attempting to interpret what I’m guessing what he may have been attempting to say, but I realize that he may just be going straight anti capitalist soon enough.
dollar stores do the typical bad corporate skim off the top practices such as running skeleton crews of staff, purposely keeping the climate control low to save pennies while making staff have to wear winter jackets in the store, not updating sticker prices to scam consumers (which of course they don't care about, they consider the fees they are eventually forced to pay by state attorneys general a cost of doing business as is prevalent with other large corporations in the US) they are one of the products of a nation which has become a soulless economic zone, focused solely on enrichment of shareholders while shrinkflating and breaking laws where it ends up being worth the regulatory fines.
why is every post on this sub the worst cropped most hard to read thing ever
Such a dumb take, did he really say that?
That man has never spent $10 on an entire battalion of little green army men to shoot with BB guns, and it shows.
Rural communities used to have local businesses. Where the shop owner was a local and the profit margin largely stayed in the community. Now we have big box stores and dollar stores. Whatever profit is generated is vacuumed up to corporate office parks hundreds or thousands of miles away and to copy shareholders around the world. Where none of the profit except that paid to a skeleton crew stays in the community. And it is important to mention that dollar stores are ugly, roach and rat infested shitholes, but we have a serious problem here with rural economies being completely broken and people want to defend this rather outrageous status quo simply because dollar stores make money. No. I'm tired of rural communities being the economic whipping boys. Glorified economic colonies so there can be nice corporate office parks several states away.
"Anything that increases ugliness is evil" like, how can thinking that *not* lead to some horrific ends justify the means shit?
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I think he was referring more to the quality of the product and what that does to the people who shop there. This goes back to the old tale with $30 boots that last a month and $100 boots that last a decade. Except in this case it’s $1 cups that last a year or $2 cups that look nice last a lifetime. Dollar general sells a low level of quality that requires the customer to return again and again. It’s the consumers fault, yes, but we can also recognize the role dollar stores play in the feedback loop. Think of it like payday loan service providers. We aren’t in favor of banning them but we are absolutely not hoping that more of them appear. He’s pointing out a symptom of a problem just prescribing the incorrect solution.
>lots of Dollar stores are inherently bad Ah, yes, having lots of cheap, accessible food and other products is inherently bad, for, uh, reasons. Totally not classist. I also like how nothing he said involves the actual economy, just stupid opinions. I also like how the question asker is going for the personal attack based on stereotyping instead of an actual rebuttal of libertarian arguments and positions.
Ah yes, dollar stores…one of the things that — along with readily-available central heat & air, water treatment and food refrigeration — means even the poorest Americans enjoy a standard of living higher than 70% of the world’s population. I’m curious what his alternative is.
Wut
For a while I lived out in the boonies where the nearest store was a dollar general. Did a lot of my shopping there in between trips to town for big grocery shopping.
Is that man honestly, and with a straight face trying to argue against economic theory on the basis of personal subjective opinion and personal morality (that he may or may not have literally made up on the fly)? How TF do people even take that seriously?
What else does it produce, Tucker? Be honest. Nothing is perfect.
That's a weird take.
Why would anyone give credence to what a rich boy like him has to say about how the everyday folks do their basic shopping? So out of touch.
Did he honestly just equate ugly to being evil? So I guess he's only looking for the pretty vote.
should someone remind him that long ago many high quality goods could be had for a dollar? he's not that bright.
That entire Tweet seems like a non sequitur. “Dollar stores make your life worse because they are ugly, therefore they’re evil, therefore free market capitalism is evil.”
Everyone knows dollar stores are bad, it’s normally a necessity
I'll bet he's so out of touch he thinks Dollar General is a dollar store.
I do avoid regularly using routes with them lol. so so ugly