It's a circle that feeds itself.
Pay your employees so poorly they're barely scraping by and have to cut costs everywhere to make it through the month.
Offer your products are the cheapest, exploitative prices possible, which those workers have to purchase because they can't afford to make more-conscientious decisions.
Repeat ad infinitum as the rich get richer and everyone else gets fucked.
You can't solve the problem by asking the poor to make more-expensive choices. You need to attack the problem by attacking the actual cause; exploitative capitalist systems.
As someone who remembers when Walmart first opened up around here. Originally, they offered great jobs with great wages and great prices. I worked at JiffyLube at the time and we were even losing managers to their tire center because they were paying more. So naturally they got mountains of business.
Then as the local places largely closed down and they shut down their competition, THEN their claws came out, their wages died, their hours died, and their prices creeped up some where many times it would be cheaper to other online and pick up at the store than to order at the store.
I ended up having to work there for a bit about a decade later. There were people there who hadn't got raises in years because they put in wage caps, they cut hours, and I worked 3rd shift where they fired between half and a third of the shift in waves every 6 months. The fight for $15 is the only thing that actually forced them to start raising their wages originally.
This is one of those situations where the populace largely isn't educated enough on every issue to make informed choices in the moment and when you are in a situation where you are doing what's right while the rest are doing what's easy and cheaper for them in the moment, you are the one taking the loss.
This is one where the fix has to come from people with authority over those companies, and that isn't the consumer directly.
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i think 150-200 trillion in current a future unpayable debt burden left after boomers die...is quite the "check" breaker
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LOL the ceo is off by 1 year...Mcd by 2...giggles.
no one said it was exclusive to boomers, just they were the substantial portion of it and started the trend.
Also no one was talking about poor Sam, i said his 5 children and grandchildren who really control walmart not the CEO. At any point that family can exert their will on Walmart and make anything happen
I don't believe it will change because boomers made it standard. it will take generations to change that kind of behavior
It's also basic fact it will get better because baby boomers are an abnormal blip in birth rates that put an strain on the whole system because they and their parents made sure they would not have to foot the bill for their own benefits.
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can you give me an example of a small town with just a walmart and nothing else?
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
you got a town name or you going to randomly post stories?
Hey i got one for you!!
Look at Westport NY.
A non-walmart supermarket opened and now you have to drive 25 miles to get to another supermarket. Of course they always just had one supermarket, but lets shovel hate on that new supermarket!!!
my small town has a walmart and a new grocery store just opened up last year!! Hell the shop rite is just about done as well.
i remember years back this being a thing and every time i looked it ended up being a small town that only had 1 "store" prior to walmart coming in and they just replaced it. they didn't actually kill competition they were the competition.
Most of these "mom and pop" stores were so poorly run that they had to milk their customers to make a profit. Once you had a corporate machine like walmart that came in there was no way they could compete because they could no longer rip people off.
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
Oh shut the fuck up. Just common, stop beating around the bush and admit it that the whole issue is that you don't want OTHERS to have something granted. It is not about being lazy, it is about others having something by default. Because obviously to you it seems fine that full work week does not pay enough to live.
You also seem incapable of understanding any further implications from that, starting from mental health to public image of a city. And those go really far.
Which part of the EU, you genius? Tell me, because for sure Baltics don't have it. This just screams how small your whole world is, you literally live in a bubble I guess...
Because fucking smarter people than you agreed on that after centuries of experience observing results from work?! Have you never questioned why most of the world works 5x 8h per week? Have you never ever read anything about human productivity??? Or about the latest experiments about 35 hour work week?
Are you a child? Why do you have dificulties understanding basic things?
And fucking finally - everyone cannot be a manager or a business owner. Someone has to do the basic, dirty work too, someone has to stock the shelves, clean streets, lay bricks, etc. All you are arguing about is why should the basic workforce (without which none of the big corpos would ever exist at all) be paid a livable wage.
At least try to ponder about it.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
Sure, of course.
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Ya i didn't think you had actual examples, you were just generalizing and exaggerating.
Odd, after authoring this thread....and my comments, you think i am "bootlicking".
yikes, you be embarrassing yourself son
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
Either they are part of the generation or they aren't. The line needs to be drawn somewhere. You completely glossed over the fact that both were started by non-boomers, and experienced their growth, under non-boomers.
You know why most CEO's are boomers? because most CEO's of established companies are 55+.
Again, you're using some mighty fine rose-colored glasses there. The post-war boom that created boomers, created this. You have a hatred for them because they're currently "in charge". If you think this profit-driven excess is somehow a recent trend, you've been ignoring the last half-century.
Greed has existed since humanity has existed. This isn't a recently learned behavior.
It is far, far from a basic fact. People in general, not just boomers, have a very hard time thinking long term. It's not just a boomer thing.
Look at SkiptheDishes, DoorDash, Uber, Lyft, and such. Are those the fault of the boomers? Yet all of them are detrimental to their workers and businesses in the name of "convenience" for consumers.
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I live in a very liberal city of about 140k population. A Wal Mart was going to open up right next to our downtown, which is a hub of small businesses. The Wal Mart was boycotted so hard that they eventually closed it down due to a lack of business as well as push back from the local politicians. Funny how liberal cities tend to be thriving, bustling hubs of small businesses, and it's the podunk nowhere conservative towns that see Wal Marts plop down that force small businesses to close, because everyone starts shopping at the Wal Marts.
Your posts so often lack in context and heavily rely on projecting conservative practices onto liberals. I do have a Wal Mart near me but the only times I've ever shopped there was for midnight releases of physical Collector's Editions of games, and the only alternative to Wal Mart for those was places like Game Stop which isn't exactly a local small business.
Your posts hilariously accuse liberals of these biases or hypocrisy and yet you have no real proof or reason to believe that the people you're accusing of such things actually do what you say they do.
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What the hell does that have to do with anything I said? The fuck? Where was I even talking about Liberalism? What the fuck does it matter whether a town is 'liberal' or 'conservative'? Is it a choice what town you're born in now?
I mean, sure, big bussineses trive in liberal countries, but that had nothing to do with my point of how not everybody has a choice to what store they shop at. You can believe in the free market all you want, but it does always work like you think it does.
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I think most of this stems from people being intellectually dishonest with themselves.
You will always have a bottom rung of society and no amount of legislation will correct that. If you raise wages rent and necessities will raise at a near equal pace as the availability of resources remain unchanged.
People always talk about taxing the rich as though it was some bizzare magical bullet while always excluding themselves from any negatives such a drastic change would have.
It just comes off as naive and hallow to me. A worker sells his labor he alone decides what he will charge for it not a corporation.
Question, if companies decided that everyone should only make $0.50 an hour would prices for everything go down? Remind yourself that even though wages have been mostly stagnant things still go up in price and wages are not keeping up with it. When gas prices go up you'll see the excuse "well it costs more to get that stuff here" but when gas prices go down does the cost of those goods? No, they don't.
If I have to pay an extra 15 cents for a burger just so the person making it doesn't have to work three jobs I think I'll find a way to live with that.
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So how come currently, and for the last two decades, rent has continuously risen, as median income has been relatively flat, and low income is even worse off?
Could it possibly have something to do with those who do earn more than the median, are earning more at a more rapid pace; and that their rentals are subsequently raised in value, which in real estate means that everything surrounding it also has to be raised?
It is usually raising taxes on those who earn quite a lot. Something that has seen almost nothing but a decline for the last 60 years. Which also, those taxation rates have existed before, and the country somehow wasn't ruled by marauding gangs and Mad Max life style.
So you know... Drastic changes? What, we might lose the hollow enjoyment off seeing one less expensive sports car on roads? Not entirely sure what those changes would be.
Speaking about naïve
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technicaly for some people buying a lot less food - espcially unhealthy snacks and soda drinks could be seen as huge benefit for health.
face it - nowadays a lot of people "eat like pigs" because they can afford it due to food in those type of store being very cheap
if food was more expansive but healthier whole society would benefit from it.
its not like coca cola is article of first need.