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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doren who wrote (1416117)	8/24/2023 3:57:29 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583507

> Private supermarkets... One humorous thing about capitalism vs communism. Supermarkets in the USSR were famously empty. When I go into Best Buy or Walmart to buy a phone or TV there are TOO MANY CHOICES. I once spent weeks trying to figure out which digital camera to buy... and I still bought the wrong one. That's a $500 purchase and $5000 man hours full of wasted time. What I loved about Price Club is they limited the choices. They were like Consumer Reports in a way. THEY vetted the products before they offered them. Best Buy and Walmart are only too happy to sell you a piece of shit... So when I went in Price Club to buy a blaster or a TV... I knew the few they sold were probably pretty near if not the best ones for the money. Price Club could afford to spend $5000 man hours vetting a product. Its a bit insane to have millions upon millions of consumers doing the vetting over and over and over... when if there was a company like Price Club they'd do the vetting for me ONCE. I was willing also to pay a little more at Price Club BECAUSE they did the vetting for me. Spend an extra $10 or $50 dollars to avoid hours and hours of lost time. Point being about al this again... some things are better left to the private sphere, others better to be socialized. This either/or thinking is lazy thinking. Its just stupid.