Socialism

by Perry 76 Replies latest social current

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  Village Idiot

  Some more information on Publix, the worker owned business I mentioned above and since Perrry is a shameless cut and paster I've taken the liberty of doing so myself.

  From Daily Finance:

  Investors Should Watch This Trend-Setting Grocery Chain

  Unless you live in the Southeast, you may be unfamiliar with Publix Supermarkets. Yet some of the innovations we take for granted when shopping for groceries -- such as "electric eye" sliding doors and parking lots with angled spaces -- were developed by this grocery chain.
  
  The 85-year-old firm, based in Lakeland, Florida, is also notable for its profits. At a nearly 8 percent operating margin and 5.7 percent profit margin, Publix is more profitable than Walmart (WMT), Kroger (KR) and even tiny natural grocer Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM). The company's annual profit margin also exceeds that of Whole Foods Market (WFM) by roughly 1.5 percentage points, even though, at $27 billion in annual revenue, it's nearly twice Whole Foods' size.
  
  Publix is a quiet force in American retail. It's No. 104 on the Fortune 500 list, it falls between Dow Jones Industrial components McDonald's (MCD) (No. 106) and 3M Corp (MMM) (No. 101). Unfortunately, however, you and I can't buy Publix stock on the open markets. The company is employee-owned through its Employee Stock Ownership Plan. According to the National Center for Employee Ownership, Publix is by far the country's largest majority employee-owned company.

  And this article from aboutmoney:

  In 2013 Publix delighted its customers better than publicly-traded customer service superstars like Amazon.com (AMZN), Costco (COST) Starbucks (SBUX), and Staples (SPLS) according to the Temkin 2013 Best Retail Customer Experience rankings. Publix is also more of a grocery customer favorite than the largest U.S. supermarket chain, Kroger (KR), and the world's largest discount department store chain, Wal-Mart (WMT). Much like the pharmacy rankings, Publix isn't just beating out Kroger and Wal-Mart in the minds of grocery customers by a little. Publix is a favorite grocery store destination by a lot.
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  Finkelstein

  Interesting is it not that the countries with the highest standard of living for the majority of its population have strong government sponsored social programs to serve the needs of the citizens.

  I think where Perry is confused is that he thinks these top countries do not have freely aggressive capitalist economies. Get your mind of communism Perry its 2016 , Hitler and Stalin are dead .
  

  2015 Social Progress Index

  Country Rank (SPI) Social Progress Index Rank (BHN) Basic Human Needs Rank (FW) Foundations of Well-being Rank (O) Opportunity Norway 1 88.36 9 94.8 1 88.46 9 81.82 Sweden 2 88.06 8 94.83 3 86.43 5 82.93 Switzerland 3 87.97 2 95.66 2 86.5 10 81.75 Iceland 4 87.62 6 95 4 86.11 11 81.73 New Zealand 5 87.08 17 92.87 6 82.77 2 85.61 Canada 6 86.89 7 94.89 14 79.22 1 86.58 Finland 7 86.75 3 95.05 8 82.58 7 82.63 Denmark 8 86.63 1 96.03 7 82.63 12 81.23 Netherlands 9 86.5 9 94.8 5 83.81 13 80.88 Australia 10 86.42 13 93.73 12 79.98 3 85.55 United Kingdom 11 84.68 19 92.22 15 79.04 6 82.78 Ireland 12 84.66 15 93.68 29 76.34 4 83.97 Austria 13 84.45 4 95.04 9 82.53 18 75.77 Germany 14 84.04 12 94.12 10 81.5 16 76.49 Japan 15 83.15 5 95.01 20 78.78 19 75.66 United States 16 82.85 21 91.23 35 75.15 8 82.18
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  Heartsafire

  Hi guys! All I know is that my economics professor detests socialism and communism for America. No offense to you socialists and commies out there. Also, an economy that embraces capitalism promotes the growth of small businesses and entrepreneurs. I like that newbies who may get crushed by govt tax and red tape would get a chance to start their own businesses. When it comes to money, well, I think capitalism's focus is on growth business wise while socialism is more about spreading wealth around. Generalities, of course.
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  scary21

  Maybe Socialism can work in a smaller country where your neighbors kind of dog you if your not pulling your share.....like get off your lazy ass and go to work you bum.
  

  Here we have multi generations that have never worked a day in their life,their mother and grandma never worked in their life .They all know how to work the system though.

  Some live pretty well, My sisters one time neighbor was driving a JAG. I have seen some shit that would blow your mind! I call it WAC JOB money ...lol But it's not really that funny This is getting crazy and some of the people that really need this money because they are really sick are refused.

  What it boils down to is I don't want the Watchtower for my mother OR the government for my daddy.

  I do like what they are doing at Publix.... It;s always better if people have some skin in the game,

  I guess just from what I've lived and seen in my life I believe in capitalism .
  
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  Jehalapeno

  For the Publix model to work, they must make a profit. It's still capitalism.
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  coalize

  The difference between socialism and capitalism is not the profit itself, but the way it's shared!
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  Vidiot

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  That hippie-haired, bleeding-heart, socialist Jew...

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  BTW, Perry, you're voting for Trump, aren't you?
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  Vidiot

  BTW, everybody, it's official.

  Either Perry has finally gotten to the bottom of the Kool-Aid bowl...

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  ...or...

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  ...he's actually been punking us this entire time, in which case a) we'll all have to start calling him "Perr-ody", and b) "Poe's Law" has been Stephen Hawking's long-sought-after unified field theory all this time. :smirk:
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  Vanderhoven7

  I believe it was Margaret Thatcher who said, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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  Terry

  bohm

  Yes, he is an odd mixture of things, none of which is less than mercurial. He has a remarkable talent for didactic exposition.

  I doubt I'll become convinced to shun from watching his videos, although I'm pretty certain we all have a right of boycott, do we not?