A few differences of opinion is obvious here, but just to engage in conversation with what your argument is...
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1.)How can they effectively choose in a free market when the 7'x5' shelf has ~10 selections 8 of which are owned by the big 2? They spend their money where they want to spend their money but the economy is smothered because the American people are not the ones making the money.
Well, in your example, they have 2 choices. In teh real world, even in my tiny podunk town, I have no problem finding local craft beer.
2.) you are assuming that I would turn my back on them. I stand by American companies, making American products, in America, from American vendors, in American communities. I happily will buy Sam Adams EVERY time before buying from AB Inbev. And I know how much more money they make per Hectoliter. In business that is as big as the beverage/food industry I truly do not appreciate big box, big business. It is not a culture I want to belong to. It is rarely a good product and far from a great one. It has been what Generation 'Y' was born into. A faded culture of proud Americans into a bitter obsessed consumerist media junkies. It just is not what I believe to be real. There is no connection between a can of Budweiser and the owner. That to me is real. I want to drink milk and know who cleaned the utters. I want to eat a salad and know it was grown in my neighboring county. I want to have exotic cuisine cooked by a guy who was born and raised on the same street as me. Someone who found passion that took him abroad, and he did the most inspiring thing I have found in modern day America. He took his passion back home and shared it with his neighbors, friends and family. Call me whatever you want, but you should atleast agree that there is real beauty in that concept.
Oh, I get it now. Do you also prefer your black rimmed glasses be hand crafted out of organic ABS and your organic beard cream made from the local llama farmer? Don't even get me started on trying to find a flannel shirt around here made with locally grown cotton. I feel you bro.
3.) You assume I have a problem with Joe. I don't. You assume the issue with everyone who is against big business and big banks is that it is jealousy. It isn't. I think we can atleast agree that would be arrogant.
I don't understand how you don't contribute any of this to a marketing culture from big business flooding the market with a ridiculous impression compelling people to buy their product based on false pretense? You think that is responsible business practices? If you do that is fine. Believe what you want. I for one am tired of it. Walker-Smith reports the average person is exposed to 5,000 advertisements a day from ridiculous companies spending 1.6-1.9B a year in marketing. Remember when we were told McDonalds Chicken Nuggets were a healthy meal option for children? Yeah, its not even close to what a "healthy" meal should be. However my parents believed it was a great choice.
So stop blindly following marketing ads and think for yourself. Just because others are doing it, doesn't mean you have to.
What is "American" about a bunch of slaves to a major corporation that throws its profits in another economy? That would be "pretty American" if it was an employee owned company in Ohio. It is not, and if it were I could support it.
