Killed by greed

[the_troubles]

Ugh this is the saddest story I have seen in so long. how pathetic is it that this guy had to die for a shitty corporation that doesn't care about him while people were rushing to go buy cheap plastic crap that they don't need and can't afford?

I was in Chapters the other day and I noticed in the pop culture section all these books about over

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Also depressing:

[rankingfullstop]

"FreeExchange points us to an discomfiting Reuters story telling us what can be learned about the economy from parsing Wal-Mart sales figures.

As the economy worsens, Wal-Mart's customers have increasingly shown signs of living paycheck to paycheck.

Wal-Mart's sales typically surge around pay periods at the beginning and middle of the month. [Eduardo Castro-Wright, president and chief executive of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations} said that spike has become more pronounced as consumers' budgets become more stressed...

...In a "disturbing" trend, Castro-Wright said Wal-Mart for the first time is seeing a paycheck-related spike in sales of baby formula, suggesting consumers are rushing to buy such necessities as soon as they have the cash."

Friggin baby formula

Re: Also depressing:

[the_troubles]

sigh. this is just the beginning. there never was this "wealth" they talked so much about. just credit!