One very bad economic indicator

by on November 28, 2008 at 6:26 pm in Current Affairs | Permalink

A Wal-Mart
employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of
shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store
early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a Hobbesian frenzy.

Here is the story.

Highgamma November 28, 2008 at 7:55 pm

Do you agree with their use of the term “Hobbesian”?

auctoritas November 28, 2008 at 8:25 pm

If this is hobbesian I wonder what the NYTimes thinks of the world outside the west. Oh right, they love it. People are for the most part nasty greedy creatures and are hobbesian everywhere. Only a big enough, high-IQ extended family can give rise to a system of relatively impersonal capitalism that channels selfishness into productivity, and can later on pacify other tribes to some extent through empire and assimilation.

Paul November 28, 2008 at 9:54 pm

IMHO this is a bad economic indicator but not a terrible one. The difference between a depression and recession is that in a depression people kill themselves, in a recession they kill other people.

fdssd November 29, 2008 at 2:23 am
cx November 29, 2008 at 2:27 am
Ben November 29, 2008 at 4:50 am

This is what I love about libertarians. All heart.

Thomas November 29, 2008 at 8:03 am

Are you sure the link is not to The Onion?

Hei Lun Chan November 29, 2008 at 8:57 am

Doesn’t this happen somewhere almost every year?

Christina November 29, 2008 at 11:42 am

This madness surrounding holiday hopping is why I have been buying all my Christmas presents from Amazon the past few years. Since I have Amazon Prime I don’t spend anything on shipping, and I’m spared dealing with the crushing (literally it now seems) throngs. I hate shopping enough as it is, I can’t fathom why anyone would wait outside a store in the freezing cold for hours just to buy some $9 DVDs and $800 flat-panel TVs.

bytamer June 12, 2009 at 8:16 pm
cam balkon November 20, 2009 at 9:31 am

I suspect its more likely a problem of crowd control, not blood thirstiness. Those in the back push forward until the doors fail, forcing the front of the crowd onto the employee who was killed. I noted one version of the story had people stepping over him – but who could stop to help him without themselves being run over?

kral oyun November 24, 2009 at 10:28 am

I suspect its more likely a problem of crowd control, not blood thirstiness. Those in the back push forward until the doors fail, forcing the front of the crowd onto the employee who was killed. I noted one version of the story had people stepping over him – but who could stop to help him without themselves being run over…

orjin January 17, 2010 at 3:31 pm

thANKS ADMİN

check up May 15, 2010 at 2:44 pm

I suspect its more likely a problem of crowd control, not blood thirstiness. Those in the back push forward until the doors fail, forcing the front of the crowd onto the him without themselves being run over……

Rap December 1, 2010 at 8:01 am

thanks

Program indirr December 8, 2010 at 4:01 pm

thanks admin verry nice.

izoLasyon December 28, 2010 at 3:32 pm

I suspect its more likely a problem of crowd control, not blood thirstiness. Those in the back push forward until the doors fail, forcing the front of the crowd onto the employee who was killed. I noted one version of the story had people stepping over him – but who could stop to help him without themselves being run over?

Kostüm December 30, 2010 at 8:36 am

I suspect its more likely a problem of crowd control, not blood thirstiness. Those in the back push forward until the doors fail, forcing the front of the crowd onto the him without themselves being run over.

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Tercüme January 11, 2011 at 8:37 am

I suspect its more likely a problem of crowd control, not blood thirstiness. Those in the back push forward until the doors fail, forcing the front of the crowd onto the him without themselves being run over……

Cam Balkon January 22, 2011 at 3:22 pm

thnks share

Lazer Epilasyon February 16, 2011 at 8:18 am

Hiphop Time. Hiphop Vakti Millet.

Lazer Epilasyon Ankara March 4, 2011 at 3:48 am

I used it yesterday to plot unemployment rates of the states with the most economic freedom as ranked by the Mercatus Center:

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