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Originally Posted by KRM0614
Thank you so much ! That’s exactly right it’s not the wages paid it’s the profits kept ! Almost every state has higher minimum wages and their prices are less. Look how expensive Public is ! Kroger’s would mop the floor here!
This is a unique environment also as all the local business pay much higher rent and royalties to the Morse family/ Villages. Some how they’ve managed to price gouge. As the place gets larger non of the operating costs go down in fact the amenity bill is now around 210-230 a month.
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I don't know about Publix (which I think you meant ?) being more expensive, sure not to me, but we're all from various locations so I suppose that could be true for you. But your point about the Morris family, and free enterprise, and capitalism in general, it's an age old argument and many on here will defend socialism as the only way to go, while others will make valid arguments about how well capitalism has worked for us. While we certainly have our poor and homeless, just spending time a few months a year traveling the world will convince most just how well a democratic republic form of government with a capitalistic form of commerce, has served to us so well even many of our poorest citizens (again, not all) even have some type of vehicle, a TV that may not be the newest and best, a cell phone (often needed to obtain daily work), and some measure of food daily. This is unique in the world. An individual once told me (in a central American county), "America, if only I could choose, I would choose to be poor in America". We have exceptions, but even among the exceptions, you find some individuals who have made choices like prolific drug use, criminal activity, and serious mental health issues, that have compounded their circumstances. But the actual number of people dying daily from lack of food and no clothing to protect them from the elements is actually small compared to the rest of the earth ! Even one among us dying from hunger is tragic, but over all, most do not realize just what we have accomplished here. But for all the "evils" of capitalism, the Morris family included, we still have much to be thankful for in regards to death from starvation in our country. A personal decision to self ingest various drugs, kills far more Americans, but there again, do we trade the right to self determine, even destroy one's mind or body, for the "safety" of a government or others making the decisions for us. When the Villages gets too greedy, it's time to start looking around for a more comfortable place is the way I view it, and I HAVE taken stock of many of those same things. If Kroger is cheaper, and worth some of the other things NOT available where Kroger's exists ( and I know and LIKE Kroger's, shop there when visiting children and grand children), then it's time to move. When ANY developer begins, in the minds of the customers, to take "more than they are entitled to, it's not time to change the entire foundation of the country, it's time to find another location that offers more of what ever a person is seeking. THAT'S the wonderful part of being an American, we have no limitations and restrictions on where we can, and can not, live. We are only limited by what we can spend on shelter, and we have an unlimited selection of "costs of living" locations in this country. Trouble is usually, people want to live in one certain place, and THEN turn that into exactly what they want it to be. There's good and unacceptable everywhere, each has to weight it for themselves, but complaining about who makes what profit, well, it's a pretty useless waste of time as far as I view it. When I get fed up, and I decide Publix is expensive, I'll solve it, I'll move. Thankfully in my country I don't need permission of the government to do that. And I am, thankful !