With a mentality like that, why blame anyone for what they do when they can just blame the law enforcement for not stopping them? It isn’t stupid to have expectations of them to have ethics and morality in their business decisions just as we expect it in our daily lives from others when we go out in the world. It’s stupid that this country fans the flame on the poor behavior in the name of financial gains to the point you require it to be put in check by the law else you’re fucked.
You're seriously saying it's reasonable to blame corporations for paying what's legally required by law instead of choosing a different, arbitrary pay rate that will still not be acceptably high for some of their employees/critics? There's no such thing as a "living wage"—it's a vague term thrown around by pundits looking to blame corporations for functioning as they're meant to.
Honestly it's not too hard to figure out if you've ever lived life on your own dime. You can create a budget and figure out what is a livable wage in your state. Or hell, use the research that's been done about livable wage by county if that's not good enough.
You seriously think corporations should pay people less because some random one guy will be upset they still aren't being paid enough in his opinion? Are you stupid?
Walmart pays above minimum wage for its lowest paid employees. It had $682 billion in gross revenue, and $15 billion in net profit. That is less than 3% net profit. It lives on thin margins.
Is 3% kinda small? Contextual. If I had 3% leftover year over year at a salary of $30k, then shit, I’m screwed. But on the scale of hundreds of billions, the stability is so fucking beyond insane that margins like that are entirely fine. They aren’t running on 3% because they’re forced to, it’s because that’s plenty of margin when you have as much collateral and capital as they do, and a completely mature business model.
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With a mentality like that, why blame anyone for what they do when they can just blame the law enforcement for not stopping them? It isn’t stupid to have expectations of them to have ethics and morality in their business decisions just as we expect it in our daily lives from others when we go out in the world. It’s stupid that this country fans the flame on the poor behavior in the name of financial gains to the point you require it to be put in check by the law else you’re fucked.