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[_] Anon 2230473
>> [_] Anon 2230498 >Proles paying themselves
>> [_] Anon 2230505 I worked at walmart. 8 dollars an hour to drag shit across a scanner wasnt bad, and I dont recall anyone complaining. Not sure why that guy thought it was necissary to be such a dick.
>> [_] Anon 2230513 It sounds like he wants inflation.
>> [_] Anon 2230529 that older guy at the end was right on the money. When he said higher prices it just makes me cringe because it sounds like he's selling something and nobody likes being solicited.
>> [_] Anon 2230536 Are the Amerifats this stupid? 15% pay increase doesn't translate to 15% higher prices. If the 2.2 million workers all get this 15% bump then the roughly calculated "higher price" is still ZERO. Rough calculation based on a zero-holiday year where are 261 working days of 8 hour shift, $64 per day. $16704 is the theoretical annual wage and after a 15% increase it is $19209. Total wage sum for Wal-Mart is $36.7B before the 15% bump and $42.2B after it. Wal-Mart made $17B of net income last year, so, it would lose $5.5 billion of that. Prices would remain the same. No wonder it is the Chinese who are in Moon now.
>> [_] Anon 2230541 Shaming people that say no is stupid. Most of those people probably don't make much more than 8 dollars an hour themselves.
>> [_] Anon 2230543 >># Blessed be the moon Chinese.
>> [_] Anon 2230546 >># Bitcoin to the mooooooon!
>> [_] Anon 2230549 >># >Chinese in moon now You do realize that the Chinese are FROM the moon, right?
>> [_] Anon 2230551 WM's got mountains money to burn killing competition, and planets of money to burn on image and advertising. None of that is spent on infrastructure or The Products. None of it produces anything at all. None of it benefits the consumer. But they can't afford to bring workers above poverty wages? Still, $15/h for low-skilled work isn't gonna happen. Give 'em $10 and quit gatekeeping the medical/dental/etc care of the plebs. TBH I suspect the baseline of living is kept hard so proles are scared to breed.
>> [_] Anon 2230554 I don't even make $15 an hour. Why do Walmart employees think they're so fucking special? Life sucks and then you die, deal with it faggots. If you want to make a reasonable wage, get a real fucking job.
>> [_] Anon 2230561 >># Ehm, was the dude suggesting $15/hour, which is a 90% pay rise. Now - even if that would happen - the profits would be gone and WM would be -15B on the red. If the profits should be the same as before then the Wal-Mart prices would go up ~7%. America, you fail.
>> [_] Anon 2230563 This asshole is skipping over the issue. Walmart is getting away with making the public cover some of their wage costs. Why do the walatins need more. They could not take anymore money from the company and their umpteenth grandchildren would never have to work. The issue is not consumers not paying enough rather its the higher up taking too much.
>> [_] Anon 2230564 >># >2014 >still thinks "earn it yourself" is a viable route to wealth If you'd like to issue a retort I'll have one of my commoners assist you.

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[_] Anon 2224914 Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 2224928 this is a pretty dumb argument to make. walmart could afford to raise wages without effecting product cost if they wanted to. the reason they are successful is because they are large enough to pursue unprofitable ventures for the sole reason of eliminating competition. this coupled with the lack of wage pressure from employees determines wage rates. this is just straw-man journalism
>> [_] Anon 2224931 Its just the people that shop at wall mart. Seriously. If you actually talk to the people that shop there vs somewhere else (for me Safeway/king supers for groceries) you will notice a huge difference in the intelligence levels and general quality of a person they are. I take my snake shopping with me some times. Its only when I go to wall-mart that people freak out and move 2 isles over. Everywhere else there is a genuine interest.
>> [_] Anon 2224964 God damn people are stupid Literally every person that was filmed is a brain dead sheep that is completely unaware of the world around them.
>> [_] Anon 2224968 >># no just everyone that made it past the cutting room floor.
>> [_] Anon 2224970 Corporations are evil creatures. Another fun fact about Wallyworld, though- if a Store Manager schedules less work hours (that's less people in the building and more work for the folks that are scheduled at any given time), the Store Manager receives a bonus pay based on the amount of money saved by minimal scheduled work hours, provided he/she keeps the store in working order. They've also managed to make Holiday pay count towards the amount of scheduled hours in a week (Incentive to schedule less people and therefore pay less money) as well as take away new associates' overnight pay and Sunday premiums.
>> [_] Anon 2224971 >># >Cutting costs and being more efficient is bad. I don't understand what you are trying to say.
>> [_] Anon 2224974 >># Because the people don't get a bonus for having more labour. They just have way more fucking work and the manager has to do, usually, almost zero extra work. If you can't see that, maybe you should read up more before being a smartass about it.
>> [_] Anon 2224978 Walmart employees are paid so little that they have to go on food stamps, and the corporation even works to assist them get on food stamps. How the FUCK isn't that welfare for corporations? They're unwilling to pay their employees so the rest of us taxpayers are left to pick up the bill? Fuck walmart. If they can't survive with a living wage for their employees, all the fucking better.
>> [_] Anon 2224980 lol that jew goblin at the end hahahaa
>> [_] Anon 2224988 >># walmart does not automatically owe an employee a living wage. they owe a minimum wage for each increment of time worked. the minimum wage is easy for a responsible, single person to live on provided they work enough hours. if walmart does not provide enough hours, it is the employees responsibility to find working hours with a second job. the people on food stamps are trying to feed families or are just irresponsible/unethical. it is not walmarts responsibility to pay for a laborer and their spouse and kid. modern company structure is breaking away from the "youre here forever" format. just because someone is associated with a company does not mean that the company should cater to all of their lifestyle choices.
>> [_] Anon 2224993 >># Or get a skill that gets a hiring pay
>> [_] Anon 2224995 That cunt with the box is like a telemarketer Get off as many words as possible before the guy can open his mouth >># dis nigger gets it, I'd kill for a wallmart job simply to get a reference/experience to put on paper regardless of the shit pay
>> [_] Anon 2224997 >># Why the hell do you take your snake shopping with you?
>> [_] Anon 2224998 >># >literally Learn what that word means, you illiterate cunt.
>> [_] Anon 2225003 /f/ - politics anyways, people shouldn't be expecting to be live and support a family off of being a cashier or some shit. they shouldn't be so angry at walmart for this sort of shit but angry at themselves for not working towards a more proper job (or being entrepreneurial and doing shit that way) or at whoever they deem responsible for shit economy and lack of magical free non-skilled jobs that can never be outsourced and pay big bucks.
>> [_] Anon 2225007 >># I;m not that guy, but "Literally" informal Used for emphasis while not being literally true. "I have received literally thousands of letters""
>> [_] Anon 2225011 I feel sorry for the old guy at the end he was actually trying to help them out :(
>> [_] Anon 2225012 Globalisation is a race to the bottom as far as wages are concerned. There are two ways to raise wages for everyone. The first is to lower the cost of hiring workers by removing regulations which is what Peter Schiff (the guy in the video) wants. The other is a healthy dose of nationalism where people are collectively willing to pay higher costs in return for no outsourcing and higher wages. Nationalism is a dirty word nowadays, so I don't expect people to pay more for goods because they don't give a shit about their fellow man as long as they get theirs. Neither do I expect companies to not outsource labor to sketchy third world countries so they can get a edge on the competition.
>> [_] Anon 2225013 >># /f/ is tripping on dat freakonomics and pretending it's gospel. Every economist's dream is to remove ethics from business decisions. Too bad no sane human being would ever do that with a new business. Only board members run businesses like that because of group think and their absence from the ground floor of the business. They just happily look at the numbers and create policies. Small business owners have to interact with their employees they are paying. Everyone in this thread sounds like a 15 year old that just read freakonomics for the first time. Reminds me of myself before I graduated college and got a job at a place where my boss wasn't running his business with a complete lack of ethics in the name of higher overheads. Other people matter regardless of their race, social, or economic status. It's a little thing called empathy and you start to learn about it as you stop thinking like a teenager.
>> [_] Anon 2225014 If you do a task that toddler could do and expect to get paid enough to support an entire fucking family, a house payment, and car payment, ALL OF WHICH YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IN THE FUCKING FIRST PLACE, you're a fucking retard. Don't like the job you have? GO FIND A FUCKING NEW ONE YOU LAZY TWATS, ROFL.
>> [_] Anon 2225016 The minimum wage stagnated in the sixties. Lower income earners have been making the same amount of money for over 5 decades.
>> [_] Anon 2225019 >># The Walton family members and the other board members of Walmart and Sam's club get 50% of the profits on everything sold in a Walmart. Obviously the only way to increase wage is to lower production cost or raise prices. Not distribute the profits better. THAT WOULD BE AGAINST EVERYTHING MURICA STANDS FOR.
>> [_] Disgruntled Employee 2225021 >># I'm working at Walmart now because nowhere else is hiring. Walmart moved in and shut all the businesses in the area down except the ones who don't directly compete with them. I'm fresh out of college and yet, nowhere is willing to hire because there aren't enough jobs or the economy is shit, they all say. "Just move!" you say, with what money? I hardly have enough to pay the bills and I'm splitting rent and utilities with 2 other roommates all working their own jobs. Hell, I just scraped up enough money to afford my own car after living off of cheap foods and ramen noodles for a few months. "Work a second job!" I've seen it said. You understand walmart schedules each person completely random hours, ever-changing throughout the week, right? Once I had a 2pm - 11pm shift followed directly by a 5am - 1pm shift, try explaining to your second job that you can't work a regular schedule because your first has a hardon for making things difficult.
>> [_] Anon 2225023 >># [citation needed]
>> [_] Anon 2225027 >># You sound like you work in a college town. Go get a job at a delivery place. I deliver for dominos and it's an easy $16-$20 an hour and super duper relaxing. The hours kind of suck though.
>> [_] Anon 2225028 >># What did you major in? I agree, by the way. Walmart is the death of small businesses.
>> [_] Anon 2225029 >># >Walmart moved in and shut all the businesses in the area down except the ones who don't directly compete with them. Maybe those businesses should have been owned by pussies
>> [_] Disgruntled Employee 2225030 >># I got an associates of science trying to work towards a degree in programming. It's paltry I know, but it's still a degree. I ran out of money and had to go find a job, which is why Walmart even happened. Of course it doesn't help that I live in the belly of the beast: Arkansas, and we're not exactly known for our vast technological job field. I intend to move when I have the chance but, that takes a bit of money/connections too, which is hard to save up on 7.75 an hour and working 32 hours a week at best, even when asking for more hours.
>> [_] Anon 2225033 food is fucking expensive, +15% would be a total ripoff.
>> [_] Anon 2225034 >># work somewhere else or better yet: stop voting democrat
>> [_] Disgruntled Employee 2225037 >># You didn't read the other post, did you? Not only would I Love to work somewhere else, but I apply to jobs as often as I can. Not every city in america has tons of free jobs laying around. I got the short end of the stick and got born to a broke-ass family in a broke-ass neck of broke-ass arkansas. I'm scraping every cent I can and cutting the corners I can to escape this shithole but not everyone has rich lawyer parents to bail them out, y'know.
>> [_] Anon 2225041 >># http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570
>> [_] Anon 2225045 >># >there will be people that are mad about this
>> [_] Anon 2225051 >># Welcome to Murrika
>> [_] Anon 2225062 >demanding to be paid the same as many people with Associates degrees and actual careers for working at Walmart America, folks.
>> [_] Anon 2225064 >># Your English language skills show your ruse for what it really is.