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Increased profits come from somewhere. Nothing is ultimately good for consumers, they are just misled to believe it is.

Increased jobs, in the case of walmart, come at the price of workers having to apply for foodstamps to live. Cheaper prices come at the cost of driving local stores out of business. Google and amazon are shitty companies too, no matter how much they pay for good PR.




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