• youare_acooldude@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know why you’d assume that any other business would be any different.

    Walmart isn’t intrinsically worse than any of the other businesses; they’re just the best at what they do and all the losers who can’t compete get mad.

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      20 hours ago

      Walmart suppresses wages so bad that they train people on arrival how to get in Medicaid and food programs.

      Their existence is predicated on paying people so poorly that the company’s existence is predicated on the availability of a public handout just to keep going.

      So, yea, they are intrinsically (and measurably) worse than many employers.

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        Yeah, this is what I mean.

        That’s not unique to walmart. All businesses, local or conglomerate, pride themselves on paying their employees peanuts.

        This is the fault of the workers more than anything else. They can’t work together to demand better compensation, so they get taken advantage of accordingly.