Wal-Mart’s wake-up call
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Wal-Mart’s willingness to upgrade the healthcare it offers to workers (Feb. 24) demonstrates the value of activism by people of conscience.
The executives at corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., are hearing and responding to all of the boycotts. No doubt the threat of legislation also resulted in a wake-up call to the world’s largest retailer. Capitalism works best for everyone when it exists in a civil society that values fairness.
Wal-Mart’s new healthcare policy is a small demonstration of one way responsible activism can temper the social Darwinism of unfettered capitalism that results in a few winners and plenty of losers.
LARRY WIENER
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