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Andrew's question, "what can we do to help those good ideas along?" is focused mainly on what Americans can do to end this cycle of greed. Let's discuss that, certainly; better zoning laws and prohibitions against spending public money to facilitate WalBorg's assimilation of our communities might be a good way to end the spread of the problem. But American solipsism seems to lurk in the way he asks his question; perhaps the permanent solution will only come from overseas, where workers finally are able to organize and demand the right to negotiate with WalMart and their middlemen for decent wages and working conditions. How can Americans help bring about the sort of transformation in China and elsewhere that will allow this? Maybe labor and government here in the U.S. need to figure out the role of labor and the rights of workers in a democracy before we think about exporting our ideas on the subject.
