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It's almost like these companies offering you products and services are trying to make money.

• roastbeefsc 12y ago
  There's a difference between making a profit and maximizing it at the expense of everything else (e.g. employee wages, public social safety nets). Wal-Mart employees utilizing $6.2 billion dollars of public assistance is an example of this. This isn't as an egregious example as Wal-Mart but it's indicative of the same underlying force.
  • crusso 12y ago
    There's a difference between making a profit and maximizing it at the expense of everything else They're aligning rewards for their loyalty program with the behaviors of customers not trying to game the system. And you criticize this? Wal-Mart employees utilizing $6.2 billion dollars of public assistance is an example of this. And exactly upon whom do you place the blame for unemployed people who use public assistance? How much credit does Wal-Mart get for the delta increase of public assistance that would be spent if they didn't employee people?
  • fennecfoxen 12y ago
    What?? Even if one accepts the tendentious leftist screed for the purposes of argument (which I will do here), this isn't even remotely like Wal-Mart. The traditional Wal-Mart complaints are that they don't pay employees enough or that they compete with other businesses too effectively. (Occasionally, the complaint is that they are willing to pay suppliers too little.) This airline complaint is that customers who have been explicitly trying to game the system by doing things like purchase $500 airline tickets can't get the free trips or upgrades they want as readily as they could before. It cheapens your anti-Walmart rhetoric to put this in the same class of "oppression". Why would you do such a thing?