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"Improvement" in this scenario is a very subjective term. Changing from more agrarian to manufacturing and saying that "look, they make more money now" is an improvement... well that is up for debate. More money does not exactly mean someone is doing better.
Oh this is about the right huh?
Gotta love documentaries. They allow everyone to feel morally superior to the Right.
Oh, this is cute.
Again: do you have links to back up any of your so-far unsubstantiated, hyperbolic claims?
Don't be Coy. Those documentaries hit a perfect pitch with the Left.
You know, I wish politics would keep its head out of business.
Is that what Ben Stein was doing with his documentary? Making everyone feel morally superior to the Right?
Wait...doesn't that essentially kill the whole argument for living wages, then? I mean, if higher pay doesn't improve lives...
That's absurd. Companies of all sizes pursue cheaper labor, it's dumb, bad business not to. The fact that Walmart is one of the "biggest contributors" is because it's one of the biggest employers.While not limited to Walmart by any means Walmart is one of the biggest contributors to the problem. They are in part the reason we have hundreds of billions in trade deficits to countries with cheap labor and lax labor laws.
It's textbook behavior. What shoudl they do, simply let competitors eat their market share? What kind of business person are you?Once this happened competition would slowly start to creep back in but generally they would have several years with little to no contenders in which they could make a significant profit. When profits started to suffer from added competition they would simply reestablish the tactic driving adversaries away again.
to me it is not ok to force people to work inhumanely in sweapshops so i can save a few cents and walmart management can get rich.
Thanks but nothing you will ever say or do wiill ever change my opinion of Walmart.
The overwhelming majority of those people aren't being forced to work there.
They choose too, instead of being prostitutes or starving to death.
That's funny. I wish business would keep it's head out of politics.
Do your own research on how chinese sweat shops dont pay anything resembling fair wages. Go look up how that affects pricing of products and how american companies paying a decent wage with benefits can't compete with companies paying less than a dollar an hour. Go look up the number of businesses that went under because walmart came to town. Go look up walmarts employee pay and benefits. Google can help you quite a bit. If you dont like google yahoo has a search engine too.
You are honest in your religious zeal! Your head is air-tight, nothings getting in, that's got to be a good thing, right?
So your justifying exploiting the poor and vulnerable in other countries to keep your pricing down?
That's absurd. Companies of all sizes pursue cheaper labor, it's dumb, bad business not to. The fact that Walmart is one of the "biggest contributors" is because it's one of the biggest employers.
It's textbook behavior. What shoudl they do, simply let competitors eat their market share? What kind of business person are you?
So shop on Amazon or Target, I do, wtf.
So your justifying exploiting the poor and vulnerable in other countries to keep your pricing down?
Crazy thought, isn't it? You'd think that everyone who read the Cost of a Twinkie essay or anything like it would be horrified and want to radically change course, huh?
The overwhelming majority of those people aren't being forced to work there.
They choose too, instead of being prostitutes or starving to death.
Fair is a subjective term, you can't tease out what is fair, by simply saying, "it's not fair."
So effing what, businesses fail all the time, for a variety of reasons.
Why should local businesses be favored anymore than any other business?
Walmart pays a decent wage, for the work being done.
It's not rocket surgery, Walmart jobs just aren't that demanding in physical or mental effort.
Not the case so much in smaller towns where they become nearly the only game in town after they killed off your former job.
Right.
Why is it exploitation?
Is someone not being a child prostitute an improvement or a detriment?
Do you know that emerging economies can't just jump from mass poverty, to American standards of wealth and living?
"Improvement" in this scenario is a very subjective term. Changing from more agrarian to manufacturing and saying that "look, they make more money now" is an improvement... well that is up for debate. More money does not exactly mean someone is doing better.
Because it helps the locals more which is kind of what life is all about.
My Sam's club job was rather physically demanding. Go sign up to work a night in the giant cooler and tell me about your sore muscles the next day after working just one pallet of cheese.
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