[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)

[spike]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Jef Allbright
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 6:13 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)
> 
> On 11/13/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Jef Allbright
> > > Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in
> France)
> > >
> > > On 11/12/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > ...  No matter
> > how many times we lather, rinse and repeat, somebody
> > has to be Walmart.
> >
> > Or what?  Suggestions welcome.
> 
> Glad also that you reframed it away from being about "moral" choices
> and toward being about relatively desirable places to work and trade... -
Jef


Jef it occurred to me that Europe Inc. must have dealt
with this problem a long time ago.  I understand that
civilization has been around a long time on that
continent.  How about it Europeans?  How did you
guys handle the classic conflict between small
local shops and huge retail monsters?  Do you
have something analogous to the yank's Walmarts
and Fry's?  Do the big cities have
them and the small towns not?  If so, do
people go to the cities to shop?

No one has said much about the fact that
bricks and mortar shops are getting ever
more competition from Amazon.com and the
rest of the internet fly-by-nights.  We
can easily imagine that Walmart might
become the last retail building left
standing.  Europeans, do you guys buy
computers and books the same way we do,
over the internet?  Do you get outta
paying sales taxes that way?

spike