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>Sam Walton was a billionaire, had a private jet, but he genuinely liked driving around in his pickup truck and flying his older prop airplane. Bad example. S
by loewenskind 16y ago
>Sam Walton was a billionaire, had a private jet, but he genuinely liked driving around in his pickup truck and flying his older prop airplane.
Bad example. Sam Walton is a classic example of a "counter signal" and he knew quite well what he was doing. When he was alive executives were forbidden from driving their expensive cars to the office. From the Bentonville Walmart store, you can see a large mansion on a hill. It was built by an executive at Walmart. Sam Walton told him that if he must build such a home he would have to build it out of site. Especially out of the sight of store employees. The man refused to hide his hard earned wealth and built the mansion. Walton fired him.
- Eliezer 16y agoSam Walton was awesome. I don't care if he did it as a coldly calculated matter of image, he's still awesome.
- loewenskind 16y agoI couldn't disagree more, but I suppose no productive outcome could come of discussing it further so I'll just leave it at that.