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[whatthefunk]

[desultude]

[shakuhachi]

Hold on, isnt Walmart the company that employs all those illegal immigrants? I dont see unions being able to have any leverage in that case.

[Hank Scorpio]

[whatthefunk]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Hey, what if there were no Walmart? Then these $6.50 an hour employees would be working somewhere else.

But Walmart does exist. And because Walmart exists the company owes...what, exactly?

[Ya-ta Boy]

I've never understood why entrepreneurship is the only part of business that should be rewarded. It seems to me that both risking the capital and supplying the labor are essential components to a successful business.

Capitalism is great at creating wealth, but really poor at distributing it. Attempts to ameliorate the deficiencies of an unjust system are inevitable. The common sense thing for successful businesses to do is to take the position that employees share in the profits to some extent since they share in creating the wealth and suffer when management is lousy.

[Hank Scorpio]

[desultude]

[ChimpumCallao]

Scorpio, don't even bother. It is impossible to argue with those on the 'victim' soapbox.


Wal mart put those stores out of business because it's better at what it does. It is only fulfilling the desire of the market, i.e. the people.

Why do people hate success so much?

All I hear here is whining. Offer a solution as to how wages can be high in wal mart and they can still offer those low low prices. Are the pocketbooks of the wal mart worker more important than the pocketbooks of the millions of people that rely on wal mart because they simply can't afford to shop anywhere else?

[bucheon bum]

solution: costco managed to find a way.

didn't read the article did you?

[desultude]

[Kuros]

If Costco can handle itself mano y mano against Walmart certainly I see no reason why Hank Scorpio should object. It seems he even agrees with the policy of treating his workers well. So? What's the problem with Costco? If someone has a moral objection to paying people little money and they want to buy at another store that in itself could be a marketing strategy...

[Ya-ta Boy]

I'm reminded of the gentleman in Massachusetts. He inherited the family business (shoes or textiles or something). Paid his workers well. Then his factory burned down. He called the workers together. They were expecting him to say the company would close or move to Mexico. No, he told them he would continue to pay them while the factory was being rebuilt.

Someone asked him why he would use his money that way. His answer: "What? Should I take another trip to Paris instead?" (or words to that effect)

[ChimpumCallao]