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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
Not sure I follow you here. Wal Mart is a legal business. I think the problem people have with tube sites is they are all illegal.
If Wal Mart employees broke into other stores at night, stole their inventory, then sold it via Wal Mart stores it would be an appropriate analogy.
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Wal-Mart have got very rich by purchasing the merchandise they sell from markets where there are very loose or non-existent labor laws. One of the bonuses for Wal-Mart was that they could employ children in these markets, and pay them a pittance. It is only when Wal-Mart get caught, and shamed, that they stop using child labor. If nobody cared about kids making stuff for Wal-Mart to sell, then Wal-Mart would have continued and expanded the use of child labor. They got caught, they said sorry, and promised to not get caught again. Many large companies use a model where the profits are measured against a possible average fine, and if they can break the law for 10-years and make off like bandits before getting caught and fined, then they will make off like bandits.