The Retail Apocalypse (major stores closing)

[Farmer-Rick]

55. Really you think it's people wanting stuff at lower cost is the problem?

First, if workers were paid what they are worth saving that last 50 cents wouldn't be as important to them. But when you barely pay a person enough to live on, then they look to save as much as possible.

Second, when you have to take a shitty job so that you can eat and have a roof over your head what kind of fun can you have? You can't have fun at work, well most of us can't. The job is for money, not what you really wanted to do with your life, at least for most of us. What fun is left to do with the little bit of money the rich are willing to pay you? Your fun is shopping. How many times have some of you middle class folks gone on vacation and went shopping at the discount stores (that really aren't discounts) or the fancy upscale stores as FUN, as part of your vacation plans? We all know people who consider shopping recreation and brag about it.

So in a capitalist system, you are perpetually under paid; overworked at a job you hate just so you can support the ones you love. Cut us a break. Too many people wanting too many things is what capitalism is all about. What else do we have to look forward to with our restricted time and money?

Then I want to point out to you folks who are constantly harping on the too many people idea as a cause for economic and climate catastrophes. ALL major developed nations birth rates ARE DROPPING. ALL Of Them. That's why average age of the population is increasing....fewer births. The only ones that are rising are the more impoverished nations. Birth rates Don't always go up. They go down and are going down in all major developed nations. Birth rate is directly attributed to infant and child mortality rates and longevity. The more babies and children die, the more mothers have more babies. The more the grown children are killed off the more mothers have more babies. If mothers see their babies dying they have more babies; it is as simple as that. In developed nations babies are not dying off and grown children are not being killed. So, birth rate drops. The aging population is a symptom of dropping birth rates.