Still too a high a cost of low price.

Shift happens, but it's about more than rerouting monetary allocations. It's about shifting attitudes, perspectives and priorities. To grasp that the Wal-Mart model of capitalism applied to oneself would utterly preclude a living wage is to enable a whole panoply of insights. Those who demand that government define wants and needs may have a point, but it's one they generally are unable to apply to their own roles as consumers. Until they can look in the mirror and scream the same mantra, I'll not be compelled to take them seriously.