[ExI] end of the road for bricks and mortar

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 15:55:51 UTC 2020


What happens next?  Do they continue, focusing on the mid-level retail?
When that is gone, then what?

 soike


Oh for sure, as soon as they get organized, they will attack Amazon storage
sites.  bill w

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:33 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> BLM organizer Ariel Atkins’ comment is the takeaway:
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> “That is reparations.  Anything they wanted to take, they can take it
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> This tells me that the BLM organizer wants to treat insurance companies as
> a bottomless pit of money.  OK, so they pay these business owners for their
> losses to some extent.  Then what?  Do you suppose those insurers are going
> to bet this will not happen again?  I wouldn’t make that bet.  Insurer to
> former customer: Can’t cover that anymore, too risky, here’s your check,
> adios amigo.
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> Then… these high end retail bricks and mortar outfits are never rebuilt.
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> OK, well I suppose we don’t really need them anymore.  I see where they
> served their purpose at one time, but I don’t see that there is any
> practical means of protecting them or insuring them, since it has been
> demonstrated that a flash-mob of looters cannot be stopped.
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> Result: no more high-end retail in the population centers.
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> What happens next?  Do they continue, focusing on the mid-level retail?
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> The ability to organize looting flash mobs on the internet is accelerating
> the end of bricks and mortar retailing.
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> spike
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