Religious dogma? That's all you; has no relevance to my comment.

In larger cities, the time of the corner store with its banker's hours and three employees is at an end, just like the horse and carriage went away with the arrival of mass-produced cars.

50 years from now, you'll have a nano-machine in your office that can fabricate products, and someone will be bemoaning the "stomping out" of Wal-Marts and stores you had to travel to to get stuff.

Competition breeds progress and the consumer wins.