"No. It's what's called a multi-national corporation. It's a vast system, from mass production in China and the Far East making products for pennies on the dollar, abusing their workers into obscenely long work days, to a distribution network that undercuts workers rights, again, pays them shit, and destroys local economies because the smaller stores can't compete with the incredibly low prices that abuse allows them to sell at."
She doesn't even think twice about tearing the box open and stuffing the empty cardboard back onto the shelf. The bottle goes into her pocket until they're a few aisles away. And then she opens it, peels back all the foil and cotton, and fishes out two Tylenol. She washes them down with her incredibly overpriced bottled water, and looks back at him.
"And yet, they survive as a store because they offer a whole economic class the means to feed, dress, and entertain themselves with what meager wages they do make."
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Date: 2014-01-01 12:34 am (UTC)She doesn't even think twice about tearing the box open and stuffing the empty cardboard back onto the shelf. The bottle goes into her pocket until they're a few aisles away. And then she opens it, peels back all the foil and cotton, and fishes out two Tylenol. She washes them down with her incredibly overpriced bottled water, and looks back at him.
"And yet, they survive as a store because they offer a whole economic class the means to feed, dress, and entertain themselves with what meager wages they do make."