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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Granted there are reasons to be squeamish about "profiting off of death."
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Well logically Walmart could only be accused of "profiting off death" if it took out life insurance for its staff and then killed them off one by one with rat poison to collect the insurance payment. That's the only way to make money on insurance. As it is, Walmart receives the tax breaks it's after no matter whether the employee lives or dies, so it's not the insurance payouts and not someone's death that the company profits from. It (like all its competitors) is merely making use of a legal loophole (one of many hundreds) to ease the tax burden, to no detriment whatsoever for its employees. It might actually be passing on some of these tax breaks to its employees or customers. But details like that are of no interest to the bleeding hearts, there's too many acres of moral high ground to be claimed by blathering on about "dead peasants".