triumph of the indoctrination system #12 to the nth power

sprawl-mart has those commercials in which the actors/characters are completely stupefied/amazed for hours by the low prices on their sprawl-mart receipts, staring at them, their mouths agape. only in a society in which labour's creation of wealth is made completely invisible/mystified beyond recognition would/could an advertiser dare to raise the issue of why stuff's so cheap. the characters are amazed because they don't know that sprawl-mart's prices (and zeller's, k-mart's and most other stores') are so low because the products are made in sweat shops and unloaded, unpacked, stocked and sold by low-paid, non-union north american retail workers. here's to the united food and commercial workers (UFCW) and others trying to change that.