Your anecdote isn’t really an argument. The fact that “people didn’t cry” when a business arrived is totally meaningless when it comes to assessing the impact

Your anecdote isn’t really an argument. The fact that “people didn’t cry” when a business arrived is totally meaningless when it comes to assessing the impact of a business and its model on a community. Walmart pay subsistence wages and below. They survive via exploiting governmental support for low income individuals while funneling profit to their billionaire owners. When they become a major part of the local economy the locals lose out.