House of Eratosthenes

Evil Walmart makes a lot of money, right? We hear that all the time even though the retail giant’s profit margin was only 3.12% in the most recent quarter. Interestingly, we never seem to hear as much about the much higher profit margin of Apple, the “darling of the progressives.” In the most recent quarter, the computer behemoth with a market capitalization ($725 billion) that exceeds the value of the entire stock markets of Mexico, Thailand and Russia, had a whopping profit margin of 24.2%. No wonder its market cap is so astronomical.
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So why is Walmart so reviled by progressives when its profits (and prices) are so low that it might earn a “profit day” every 31 days, and its main corporate objective is to provide low-cost merchandise to America’s low- and middle-income households? Every day that a Walmart opens its doors for business, it gives everybody in that local community a raise and makes them better off. On the other hand, why do progressives worship Apple so religiously when its extremely pricey products generate such huge profit margins (more than 7 “profit days” every month) that the company’s stock is worth almost as much as the entire Brazilian stock market? Every day that an Apple store opens for business, it stands ready to extract $24.20 in profits for every $100 spent that day, which seems like a huge transfer of wealth from Apple’s loyal customers to Apple’s wealthy shareholders. And yet the progressives worship Apple and revile Walmart – go figure?!
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Update: The table above shows another big difference between Apple and Walmart: The workforce of Walmart is much more diverse than Apple’s. Walmart hires twice as many women and more than twice as many blacks as a share of its workforce than does Apple. As Steve Bartin points out on his blog, “We hear with enormous conviction by progressives that it’s important that a workforce looks like America.” Well, the data clearly show that Walmart is doing a much better job than Apple of hiring a workforce that “looks like America.”

Culture takes precedence, because the progressive agenda is first-and-foremost a cultural one, not an economic one. Over and over again we see these examples of certain selected well-heeled individuals and organizations escaping the proggie wrath that is all-but-expected to rain down, like fire from the heavens, upon anybody who makes too much, keeps too much, doesn’t manage to embrace, patronize, contract, employ the correct mix of pigments or sexual preferences. Certain names and certain brands get a pass.

You expect coherence from “””progressives”””?

Proggies like Apple, and the people who shop at Apple stores. They don’t like Wal-Mart, and the people who shop at Wal-Mart. That’s all there is to it.

Apple’s gay CEO is making a big fuss over Indiana’s law, for example. Yet Apple cheerfully sells products in Saudi Arabia, where gays are stoned to death by the government. This causes Apple’s proggie gay CEO, and all his proggie wannabe-gay supporters, zero cognitive dissonance, because they are the most provincial people on the planet — they will never go to Saudi Arabia, but they might well go to Indiana, and how else could they show those Hoosier hicks how enlightened and progressive and special they are without waving the Apple logo around?
- Severian | 04/03/2015 @ 09:14
Well gosh, it’s almost like when they prattle on and on about “equality” and rail against people for making too much money…if I didn’t know better, I’d say they don’t give a crap about equality at all, and just want the people they loathe to not have any money.

But I know it can’t be that simple — just because it’s the only explanation that makes any sense!
- mkfreeberg | 04/03/2015 @ 09:18
But it can’t be that simple. You can’t look at what people actually do. Noticing things ist VERBOTEN!!! You can only go by the dictionary. Thus spake the Mount Vernon Association of Experts on the Expertise of Mount Vernon Association Experts, and their word is law.
- Severian | 04/03/2015 @ 09:23
As with all things Liberal it’s never about what it’s about. Another words it’s not about what the narrative is or what the news is or what they want to have us believe. It’s simply and end game. The nothing but useful idiots in love with a false theory, an idiotic utopia, an erroneous way of feeling better about themselves.

The Lib politicians, news organizations, community agitators, etc. pull the strings, enflame the dimwitted and gullible rubes of the Christian Bakery/Ferguson /Occupy/Anti-War, Bush Lied jackwagons into thinking they are fighting for a “cause” when in actuality they are pawns being used by the puppet masters to advance a liberal/socialistic agenda of “we know better than everyone else” crowd control.

Hating on big bad corporations like Walmart isn’t about Walmart any more than “Hands up don’t shoot” was about police shooting an “innocent” black. It’s always about them shoving the narrative of victimhood down our throats. Even when the victim isn’t a victim.

Hell how many times have their BS been exposed. And not only will they not shutup about it but they’ll actually increase their story telling. We’ve just had two brutal winters in the NE, and our normal winters are not for the faint hearted, and Al Gore/John Kerry and the rest of the fuckwads are still pretending that the Earth is warming based on…completely made up stats.

If you look deep enough the false narrative/end game of control is the reason Barry has completely competuleted to Iran. He’s worldview is point blank – America is the reason for all the worlds ills and he will be the one who rights all the past wrongs. Iran is the victim of American “imperialism” and the only reason they want a bomb is because we’ve forced them into it.

We can scream till our lungs give out about their blatant hypocrisy but it doesn’t do any good. Anymore than pointing out that Muslim bakeries won’t bake a gay weeding cake. Sure it makes us feel good, gives us credibility and proves us right. All good things. Put they simply don’t care, they’re trying to “better the world” and we, and the truth, are in their way. The ends justify the means. Harry Reid lies about Mitt Romney’s taxes on the senate floor and what happens…”He won, didn’t he?”

They simply do not care about the rules as we know them, they’ve got a country to transform. We’d better figure out a way to stop them.
- tim | 04/03/2015 @ 11:56
And why doesn’t “The Hillary” list her work for Wal-Mart legal team under her Campaign’s “actual experience” propaganda?
- CaptDMO | 04/04/2015 @ 08:06
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- Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup » Pirate's Cove | 04/05/2015 @ 06:27
Are you an oppressed minority?

If you have Fortune 500 Top 10 CEOs running interference for you, probably not. (If at least one of said CEOs is one of you, definitely not.)
- Rich Fader | 04/05/2015 @ 17:58
“I’d say they don’t give a crap about equality at all, and just want the people they loathe to not have any money.”
I often ponder whether that’s more than half of the impetus of the mass increase in government growth and government spending (nearly entirely on Democrats), and the immoral and often illegal hiring discrimination against conservatives in Academia and media.
- P_Ang | 04/14/2015 @ 18:18

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