Whenever I look at aggregators that pull in my blog, I worry that I’m totally off topic. For example, Novell has an intranet page that pulls in a bunch of Novell employee blogs, which tends to be software oriented, with the occasional geek-life entry… and then there’s mine, about sex, and culture, and how awesome it is that Shaolin Soccer has finally reached the US.
Or how conflicted I am about Wal*Mart. On the one hand, they’re the logical low-margin high-volume store that caters to the average guy, and having been to them I can’t say it’s easy to ignore that appeal. Reasonable prices, man. Low margins. It’s good for consumers. Of course I don’t like the homogenization it represents, but that’s a taste thing, not a reasoned debate. Their drive for low costs does, however, have a human cost: lots and lots of crappy jobs, managers cheating their underlings out of overtime…. it’s good for the shoppers, and it’s good for investors, but it’s not …. well, it’s not good for society overall. So what do I do as a shopper, investor, employee, manager, human? Buy the stock and refuse to shop there?
I guess I make off-topic blog posts about my indecision. How very Prufrock.
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