But that is what the new military style of business has brought, along with the new constitution of what now has become of architecture, oddly enough, -a decentralization of the urban environment- actually, a de-matrialization as the computer network replaces urban forms of spatial organization. One result has been a refocussing of social violence which has now been tranformed into a contest between an individual's social rank set against their very own highly provisional economic status. When disequilibrium becomes the guiding systemic principle of late capitalist/pre-debitalist western economies the new socially responsive, conditioned citizen is one that has to constantly re-adjust to changing employment demands. Walmart is leading the trend into the new society of the very upper class and the very lower class with the remnant of the middle being a holdover from the 20th century. Walmart is actually 'Globalization', like it is practiced on the so called Third World, only being applied to our own society here at home. Each Walmart is really a maquiladora -those exported factories and assembly lines that crowd the MexAmerican border- planted in anySuburb USA. A kind of endo-globalization where the low-low wage jobs are in a way 'imported' in to our own social/economic environment.
But hey, what is the primary purpose of any corporation (?) - To extract money from society!