KhanadaRhodes said:
wow, what a mature response. okay then, what about the thousands of people out of a job? i don't mean the ceo or anything, i'm talking about cashiers and stockpeople.
or do you not care about them either?
I'm not trying to upset anybody, here...I seriously just don't give a shit about a price-gouging, shitty store. Still, I simply cannot go without responding to the misguided foolishness of this particular post.
I have no clue what led you to believe that my saying that Tower's prices were too high meant that I wanted to destroy the lives of the store's employees. This conclusion is of course all the more laughable because not a
single person in this thread brought up this issue; if you want to damn me for something I neither said nor implied, then I would encourage you to do the same thing for everybody else.
Additionally, there were only a few dozen Tower Records stores all across the nation, meaning that your claim of "thousands" of people being out of work is in fact accurate. I know that this sounds shitty, but the simple fact of the matter is that a few thousand jobs (tops) doesn't mean a fucking thing. There are infinitely more than a few thousands jobs which these same people will be able to fill up, right quick. And since we're only talking about the in-store employees, I think I'm all the more right--there are dozens and dozens of minimum wage jobs out there in this free market, capitalist economy (love the system or hate it, this is all the same an undeniable truth). I should know, because I was working them to put myself through college, the last few years. I quit a few of 'em, too, and believe it or not, my life didn't end. Instead of watching my life unravel around me, I...you know...got other jobs.
If I came up in this piece and was like, "Dude, Tower Records is so shitty that I think all the stockboys should be hung in the town square," then I could understand your hatin' on my post as you did. As it stands, though, it's ludicrous. Frankly, I'm even a bit insulted by your unspoken implication that we as music consumers should shop at a given store and support its outrageously high, exploitative prices in order to make sure that its employees get their paychecks. You never said that, and I doubt that you meant it; I will take the high road and NOT put words in your mouth or. Still, such a thought is the unfortunate logical extreme of your position.
I am done ranting. I guess, as a hard-line socialist, I have problems with somebody telling me that I don't give a shit about my own kind. I fucking hate it, in fact, especially since it's neither true nor did anybody have any reason to think thusly. Holla.
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