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"Which shitty business practice? Selling food to poor people to make them less hungry?" No one talked about that but you. You know that is not what we're talki
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Which shitty business practice? Selling food to poor people to make them less hungry?"
No one talked about that but you. You know that is not what we're talking about; we're talking about the shitty wages WalMart pays, which requires you and I to subsidize their labor costs.
"Or employing them to make them less bored, more purposeful, and to have more money than if they were unemployed?"
This is a complete non-sequitor. They are subsidizing their labor costs by not paying enough, and requiring their employees to turn to public assistance. That is shitty, and pure evil, as is anyone apologizing for that practice.
"Would you like to run a business in an environment where the government is free to single you out for differentially hostile treatment?"
I wouldn't run a business in that manner, and so I honestly do not give a flying fuck about the feelings of any business owner that would be upset at that. As far as I'm concerned, those people deserve to have their business and money confiscated from them in order to repay society for what we've had to do for them.
- sokoloff 8y ago> No one talked about that but you. Uh, this post (about 5 up-thread and not by me) talks about/seems to complain about the money Walmart receives for selling food to SNAP recipients: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977792