Walmart: The New Collectivist Target
Collectivists, Progressives, and anti-capitalists have apparently moved on from Halliburton and targeted Walmart as the Satan of the moment. Walmart is charge with everything from destroying communities to mistreating employees.
What most of these attacks overlook is that no one shops or works at Walmart except by their own free will - that shopping there or working there are better than their other choices. Cafe Hayek points out this rather obvious but consistently overlooked point. However, it is a hallmark of "progressives" that they distrust individual decision-making, so I guess it is not so surprising. You can't compare jobs to some mythical ideal and claim that they don't measure up - jobs measure up or not only in comparison to other available opportunities.
