Yeah, I thought it was really good, though she seems to take a little too long to make her point. It started to drag for awhile at the end. I watched the DVD accompaniment, which is pretty interesting.
"Jennifer Government" by Maxx Brady is really good - deals with similar issues. It's a fiction book that answers the question: "What if corporations really ran the world?" In it everything is privatized and people's last names are the company they work for or the school they go to, you have to prove you have insurance to use an ambulance, and a bunch of other really crazy stuff. It's pretty good - a different approach to the utopian/dystopian novels that typically look at a world where the government has all the power.
I don't know that we can get rid of Wal-Mart, but if more people boycotted, or protested, or something, there would be at least SOME pressure for them to not suck so much. The fact that they are often the cheapest place to shop, and therefore poor people are left with little alternative but shop there makes boycotting difficult to do with any effectiveness. They are evil.
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No Logo is an interesting book, and it deals with similar issues and talks about the whole Wal-Mart/GAP/Starbucks situation.
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"Jennifer Government" by Maxx Brady is really good - deals with similar issues. It's a fiction book that answers the question: "What if corporations really ran the world?" In it everything is privatized and people's last names are the company they work for or the school they go to, you have to prove you have insurance to use an ambulance, and a bunch of other really crazy stuff. It's pretty good - a different approach to the utopian/dystopian novels that typically look at a world where the government has all the power.
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