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Originally Posted by BadBilly
At first glance, copyright law and royalties may look like some kind of lazy thievery to an hourly-wage worker. Let's say you're a Walmart greeter. You have to stand at the front of the store and say "Welcome to Walmart, here is a cart" for hours every day. Oh, the author's life looks like a sweet scam because they get paid for every copy of the book sold.
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Wal Mart did away with greeters years ago to save $3,000,000.00 a year. There costs associated with shoplifting and employee theft then rose by more than 10 times that amount.
The greeters were originally hired as a way to deter shoplifting and employee theft without intimidation. Now they have replaced them with a combination of employees and security guards.
I was in a Wal Mart yesterday and thought I was in Sam's because they were scanning customer's receipts and checking their purchases.
Now your signed membership contract with Sam's Club states that you agree to allowing them to do this. The last time I checked there isn't a signed agreement to allow Wal Mart to do this. It also comes across that they consider their customers thieves. I would not be surprised if some lawyer brought a class action suit against them for this.
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