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When Amazon is the only viable place of employment in your town, yes. Look to Walmart- America's largest supermarket chain, and America's second largest employ
by wildrhythms 5y ago
When Amazon is the only viable place of employment in your town, yes.
Look to Walmart- America's largest supermarket chain, and America's second largest employer (second only to the U.S. government). Rural America is a sea of "Walmart towns", where the best employment is the only employment.
- rcstank 5y agoCommon sense says otherwise. If this were true, Walmart would eventually siphon all of the money out of that town. Have we seen this happen widespread? Many people commute to larger towns/cities for work which may only be a 15-20 minute drive.
- gruez 5y ago> When Amazon is the only viable place of employment in your town, yes. >Rural America is a sea of "Walmart towns", where the best employment is the only employment. Are you being hyperbolic by saying that amazon/walmart is the "only" or "only viable" place of employment? Are there literally no other places to work? If you're being hyperbolic, at what point does it count as "medieval style feudalism"? I searched around on wikipedia for what "feudalism" is, and despite my best efforts I can't pin down on a good definition. However, it definitely doesn't seem to be "one entity provides most of the employment in an area".