The most advanced would be China and they went to India for trade goods, like spices. And, are you stating that India wasn't raped by a colonial power? The Mughal Empire was a solid power and culturally relevant, but India was mostly just a collection of independent states similar to Germany prior to the 1800s.
India was raped by a colonial power, but their self imposed caste system and idiotic religious insertion is the problem today. The British destroyed something, but the fat, dumb, lazy and happy approach to prosperity did much the same to the Indians that it is to us. China wasn't more advanced than the Indians.
Agree on the problems of the caste system and religious insertion into society. It's one of the reasons why I've argued the Enlightenment is, arguably, the most important age in the last 2,000 years. However, there's no doubt the Chinese were the more advanced technological society than the Indians. Just a cursory look at the inventions and innovations by the Chinese prior to the Ming Dynasty confirms this, much less their advancements in areas like navigation.
I'll go one by one: What do you think the average mom and pop paid their checkout clerk? You think that wasn't damn close to minimum wage just like walmart? What you are bemoaning is rich whitey (the owners of the stores) going bankrupt. Commissioned by the British Columbia division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees NEXT "When Walmart comes to town, it is going to reallocate sales" Yes, it's going to reallocate sales to your community. The horror! I love only mentioning the drop in sales from other stores and not mentioning the dramatic increase in tax revenue and jobs a walmart provides.
That there might be everyday even lower prices if they had legit competition. I'm not trying to bash Walmart. I'm trying to praise competition.
They sell groceries, have tons of competition on that front from large chains, and from what I understand are generally the cheapest in that department, too.
and in areas that can't support a target or Costco or whatever in addition to a walmart what are they better off with? a dozen mom and pops or a walmart with 100X the selection and cheaper prices?
