>to things like Dollar Tree where you can pay double the unit rate to buy a small portion of a normal product. It seems like you're implying that Dollar Tree i

>to things like Dollar Tree where you can pay double the unit rate to buy a small portion of a normal product. It seems like you're implying that Dollar Tree is unethical for putting forward an investment in order to take advantage of economies of scale and then paying for overhead, shipping, and retail space to sell their goods at a profit. What do you propose as an alternative to this? Should these goods be taken from those who are able to produce them at a wage set by the government and then distributed to those who need them, as prescribed by SSI, after nationalizing Dollar Tree and its ilk? How will the amount that the producers are owed for their labor be determined, or does this even matter? Or maybe if this kind of discount store is immoral, maybe it should be banned. Are you suggesting that the customers of Dollar Tree would be better off if they simply went without whatever wares Dollar Tree has? Or that individual consumers should somehow gain access to the economies of scale that arise with being able to afford, eg, an entire container ship full of junk coming from east Asia?