"From the bottom of any large organization looking up through the ranks, human greed and stupidity look a lot like a conspiracy."
--S. Gilbert
It's not a conspiracy. Publix has better and cheaper stuff than Winn-Dixie because they have product better turnover, more shrewed customers (that's part of how they came to be affluent) and more competent and dedicated staff (cause the shrewd customers demand it). Winn-Dixie gets away w/ selling outdated, putrifying crap because, when it comes down to it, their customers either don't give a shit or don't have a car or both.
But it is a number of large oganizations made up of typically stupid, greedy people.
Why has Monsanto developed seed stock that will not set fruit unless the farm hands spray it w/ a particular patented chemical at the proper time in the growing season? Read up on the term "terminator seed" for a front rown showing of extreme greed and stupidity on all sides of the issue.
One nice thing about getting out of the city is that good, wholesome, natural food will not likely ever be a big problem. People around here who are not too poor to buy prepared meals exclusively are still thrifty enough and prescient enough to patronize the local farmers' markets and roadside stands.
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
--Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
