tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post6751144885899622038..comments2023-11-03T05:34:26.880-05:00Comments on The Whited Sepulchre: You Owe Your Soul To The Company StoreThe Whited Sepulchrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-66673416373831523692008-06-23T20:06:00.000-05:002008-06-23T20:06:00.000-05:00Dear Anon,Where are you getting this idea that "th...Dear Anon,<BR/><BR/>Where are you getting this idea that "the government shouldn't intervene"? There are plenty of situations where government should intervene. <BR/>What plantation bookkeepers often did was to arbitrarily add purchases to the tenants' accounts that the tenants never made. This was illegal, and should've been prosecuted. Unfortunately, sharecroppers had to rely on the same The Whited Sepulchrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-74437977298009772912008-06-23T09:43:00.000-05:002008-06-23T09:43:00.000-05:00The reason sugar is cheaper oversees is because it...The reason sugar is cheaper oversees is because it comes from workers with a drastically lower income and standard of living. If we want to pay our workers a slave's wage and have no safety standards then we too can have cheap sugar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-64866049400559097612008-06-23T09:40:00.000-05:002008-06-23T09:40:00.000-05:00I'm surprised you have a problem with the company ...I'm surprised you have a problem with the company store. It's the perfect example of uncontrolled free-markets. An employer comes to the poor and says I'll give you this job if you agree to all these pre-conditions. He singed the contract, so the government shouldn't intervene according to you, no matter how crooked the contract is. It looks like a fine example of laissez-faire exploitation Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com