(11-25-2024, 11:47 AM)TDOSS Wrote:

(11-25-2024, 10:56 AM)Jag149 Wrote: Have you ever done business with Walmart?

That has nothing to do with the discussion.

Personal anecdotes are useless in a discussion of such wide-ranging scope. If you're trying to make the discussion about you or me, I am not interested in that. There is no point in changing the discussion into that. 

If you want to talk about Walmart, I'll gladly give my view. You seem to have a very favorable view of Walmart. I will gladly represent the unfavorable view. I have read extensively about Walmart. Walmart has not been good for America. Many American lives have been ruined by Walmart.

Walmart pays it's workers so little that many of them qualify for social assistance. Our tax dollars are being used to support Walmart workers, who are treated terribly. Thus, Walmart enjoys this indirect massive government subsidy. Couldn't operate without it. There is a high burn-out rate among Walmart workers. Walmart relies on government assistance programs to support it's workers. Walmart workers are treated horribly. They are often expected to have zero life and be on-call 24-7. When stores get more traffic, on-call workers are called in. If they refuse the call, their hours are dropped or they are fired. If store traffic drops, workers are sent home. They never know if they are going to get enough hours to pay rent or not. It's a horrible insecure way to live. If they do not accept being treated like this, Walmart will happily fire them and oppress others.

Working at Walmart is a good way to have no life, no savings, build no wealth, and be left with nothing at retirement age and forced wot work when others can enjoy retirement. Just look around at any Walmart. You'll see some very old people working there. They aren't doing that because they enjoy it. They have insufficient savings nor benefits. Walmart is happy to take advantage of their misfortune. Walmart sucks.

I don't think this is a fair criticism.
Most of the subsidies you are referring to are the earned income tax credit.
Almost all low skilled workers with children at home qualify for this credit.  
Walmart pays its employees similar to how Target or Publix pay them. The discount retail sector is low wage. The one outlier is Costco. Fewer Costco employees qualify for the earned income tax credit, but not none.

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