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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why are Walmart employees using food stamps and medicaid when the family that owns Walmart are multibillionaires? It doesn't make any sense. :\

[–] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Gotta keep that overhead low to return value to shareholders. They also use prison labor.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

you're wrongly assuming that the family that owns walmart has any empathy besides what is required to keep the business running

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It makes perfect sense for them. It doesn't make sense that the rest of us don't beat them until they change their ways.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

eh, i tend to think that political action is more meaningful than bashing the companies. if you bash 1 company and it goes down, another one takes its place. you need to implement higher taxation because that affects all companies.

also we need more effective politics at the local level. washington doesn't care about us

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We should tax wealth not work. But that's not socialism. Socialism is workers owning the means of production.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

wealth is accumulated income. income is generally from work. that's the logic they use to justify already having taxed wealth. simple as that.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Wealth disparities of millions of times are anathema to democratic government. If you don't want peasants and feudal nobility, you have to offset wealth accumulation.

Inheritance taxes have proven insufficient. So wealth taxes are the next best compromise.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sarcasm is forever lost on the internet.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

always should have been ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yeah buddy sure

(i am new to the sarcasm how did i do)