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This gets to the heart of the problem of minimum wage. Walmart is often cast as a villain because many of their workers receive government benefits. Nobody stop
by qeternity 6y ago
This gets to the heart of the problem of minimum wage. Walmart is often cast as a villain because many of their workers receive government benefits. Nobody stops to ask the very real question of: what if the average Walmart worker doesn’t add $X in value per hour. What if the value of the “Walmart Greeter” is less than that of minimum wage? Is it better for Walmart to fire this person because they’re not worth minimum wage (presumably it’s the highest paying job they could find, suggesting they’re not worth “minimum wage”) or is it better to have lower minimum wage with state benefit offsets? At least in the latter scenario Walmart helps shoulder the burden.
Tl;dr - Often corporations are accused of abusing state benefits by not paying workers more as opposed to shouldering some of the burden that states would otherwise be left with due to unemployed masses of unskilled labor.
- DangitBobby 6y agoThey also get a bit of a bad wrap for pricing out local businesses. Would you rather work minimum wage for a giant, faceless megacorp in a soul sucking minimum wage job with few growth prospects? Or would you rather potentially work for a local business with people you might care about and that might care about you? At least now we can have all the cheap plastic shit we ever wanted.
- VRay 6y agoDude, that is crazy. Wal-Mart will NOT pay someone more than Wal-Mart thinks their pay is worth. If they were doing that, as soon as an enterprising middle-manager caught wind of it they could put together a presentation and earn themselves a juicy bonus by getting those people cut. (Well, in theory.. in practice, corporate politics can get messy)