In what ways is Walmart doing evil?

[TheEnigma]

Intuitively I know that Leo would say that Walmart does evil. But how so? (besides teaming with McDonalds and Leo has said McDonalds serves poison). Can't the Walmart CEO still say, "look... we sell products and serve many people, plus can keep the costs down and make things so efficient to customers, plus we bring shareholders lots of value, Win Win." Is it because they mistreat employees and pay them so little? What is really evil to even begin with?

[Bjorn K Holmstrom]

I guess Walmart is "evil" in that it operates at a lower developmental level, stage orange instead of let's say green or yellow/turquoise. It doesn't take into account the systemic impacts even if no action is explicitly malicious per se. Deepseek when queried identifies three "evil" frameworks: Systemic Harm (systemic net suffering), Consciousness Level (profit maximization instead of stakeholder welfare) and Externalized Costs (low prices don't take into account the true societal and environmental costs). It feels like we are in a transitional period. To be successful in the long term, businesses like Walmart will probably have to adapt towards higher stages. The current system punishes long-term thinking for short-term profits though.

Edited October 15 by Bjorn K Holmstrom

[VeganAwake]

First you have to be conditioned enough to believe that evil is even real for starters......it often looks like an imaginary framework in your belief system that says something is "evil" and another something isn’t (opposite)

Then you go about your life judging everything from this imaginary framework thus creating what is often referred to as the Dream Story or Matrix. (Doesn't just include so-called evil)

Once there is a conditioned belief system in place, the endless stories begin. 

Part of Awakening is recognizing this within one's own psyche!

Hell, someone could actually make a good argument that the most loving action would be to annihilate humanity completely, so nobody else has to suffer ever again!

Everything is actually just neutral or meaningless until a conditioned belief system starts judging it!

❤️ 

Edited October 15 by VeganAwake

[TheEnigma]

On 15/10/2025 at 11:38 AM, VeganAwake said:

First you have to be conditioned enough to believe that evil is even real for starters......it often looks like an imaginary framework in your belief system that says something is "evil" and another something isn’t (opposite)

Then you go about your life judging everything from this imaginary framework thus creating what is often referred to as the Dream Story or Matrix. (Doesn't just include so-called evil)

Once there is a conditioned belief system in place, the endless stories begin. 

Part of Awakening is recognizing this within one's own psyche!

Hell, someone could actually make a good argument that the most loving action would be to annihilate humanity completely, so nobody else has to suffer ever again!

Everything is actually just neutral or meaningless until a conditioned belief system starts judging it!

❤️ 

Okay but isn't Leo judging too when he says McDonald's is serving poison to people? 

[VeganAwake]

7 hours ago, TheEnigma said:

Okay but isn't Leo judging too when he says McDonald's is serving poison to people? 

🤦

[Bjorn K Holmstrom]

9 hours ago, TheEnigma said:

Okay but isn't Leo judging too when he says McDonald's is serving poison to people? 

This reminds me of a quote from my ex-girlfriend's toxicology book, it went something like "Everything is toxic, it's just a matter of the amount". 

Edited October 18 by Bjorn K Holmstrom