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Originally Posted by gmw
I'd also add that one of the complaints you see about the way big business treat their employees is that they do so while reporting billions of dollars in profit. There are not too many mom & pop businesses earning billions, and there are a significant number where mom & pop struggle to pay themselves an income commensurate with their work.
Not all big business is bad, but their legal obligations to shareholders tends to weight their behaviour toward maximising profits rather than benefiting employees. So the game is fixed to a significant extent.
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In the United States, the food stamp program is subsidizing Wal-Mart because they pay such piss-poor wages. This is a company that makes
well over 100 billion profit per year.