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Old 12-08-2011, 12:10 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by djulian View Post
And at the same time, employ twice as many people as those small businesses and offer health insurance to boot. Try getting low cost health insurance at the local three-employee shoe shop. Then again, try getting a quality shoe at Walmart. Some benefits, some trade-offs.

And unless I'm misunderstanding the article, the investigation is not into Apple--it's into the practices of the publishers that sell books through Apple & Amazon & Sony & B&N's platforms.
As far as the health care is concerned, don't be too quick to sing Wallymart's praises: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/bu...pagewanted=all

As for the claim that they employ twice as many people as the businesses in a small town (i.e. there is a net gain in employment when Walmart comes to town and after those businesses are forced out), do you have evidence for this? Also, not all jobs are created equal. Replacing jobs that pay a living wage with jobs that pay at or slightly above minimum wage creates an objectively worse situation for the workers.
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