@GazaAli said:
@TruthTellers said:
@GazaAli said:
You'd think Wal-Mart would be willing to pay its employees decent wages seeing how it came on top in the list of most affluent American corporations. Bewildering.
Again, how does stocking selves and running a register demand a higher pay from Walmart when the same jobs are done at regular grocery stores the like paid exactly the same? Just because Wal-Mart makes a lot more money than those regular supermarkets doesn't mean that it has to pay it's employees more. In fact, it means they should lower their damn prices because it's the customers who are the cause for all those sales.
I find it strange that someone with a full time job would need to rely on food stamps and other variations of aid or welfare. It defeats the purpose of having a full time job and it definitely harms the job market which is something that could be observed through the fact that business owners opt for, to use your own words, third world trash. The fact that Wal-Mart is a mammoth of a publicly-traded corporation should have a bearing to the wages its employees get. I'm not sure how to convey the idea here, but large corporations supposedly have a public image to maintain and because of the role they play in the economies where they operate they're given incentives and facilities to their advantage in order to prosper and benefit the entire economy with their prosperity. I think its what you guys call trickle down economics. In addition, such corporations re allowed to have tremendous political influence for the same reasons I already mentioned. With that said, if such a corporation like Wal-Mart is simply not willing to pay its employees decent wages then it all goes for nothing except for the interest of a handful of people. It constitutes a breakdown of the economical system and its corresponding political one in a way. In fact not only does it solely benefit those handful of people, but one can also argue that it hurts, not just "not benefit", a whole lot of other people.
Well, you gotta look at it from the other perspective of how Wal-Mart helps low income people with it's "low prices" and large selection of goods. You can't have low prices without having a low employee base, but again, how does doing menial tasks constitute a basis of increasing wages to $10, $11, $12 an hour pay? If it takes literally no skill or knowledge whatsoever to do the work that the majority of Wal-Mart's employees do then there is no reason to pay them higher wages simply because they are part of the company. And as I stated in the earlier post that you didn't care for, a job at Wal-Mart should not be someone's full time job or sole basis of income. A job at Wal-Mart, in my opinion, is one that supplements a person's income by working there a few hours a week. Too many rely on Wal-Mart as their sole means of employment because they can't find work elsewhere or aren't skilled enough to do anything else. That's the way it is and ideally, working at Wal-Mart should be done by young people who still live with their parents, not by the 30 and 40 somethings who are desperate for employment.
Edit: and just a reminder, I don't like Wal-Mart. I avoid it as best as I can until I gotta stretch the last few dollars at which I take that long drive into the parking lot looking for a place to park and take a deep breath and dive into the madhouse and try to GTFO ASAP. Of course, this is Wal-Mart and waiting at the checkout takes as long as actually shopping there.
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