Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

They Sold Us Convenience… and Killed Our Communitie

15 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a recorded conversation (YouTube) featuring Richard Canfield discussing the social and economic impacts of large corporations on local communities. Speakers contrast 'conscious capitalism' and profit-driven corporate behavior, and cite examples like Amazon delivery and Walmart’s effect on mom-and-pop stores.

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Believe me, these corporations are after one thing, profit at all costs. That's right. Conscious capitalism. Come back where it depends on paying your workers fair economically, within the boundaries of the environment. All these things, and yet no profits at all costs. We've gone way off the tracks.
There's a couple of elements I'm thinking about there and again. Shopping at the local store versus having Amazon delivery for everything. Right? Everything's on a delivery now type basis. I remember watching when I was young, documentaries and things on how as an example, Walmart killed the mom and pop shops in a lot of places because the big box kind of model and that they could offer lower prices and see that people couldn't compete.