(October 10, 2012 at 5:12 pm)festive1 Wrote:Same corporate scam West Virginia coal minors suffered in the 60s and 70s and before. They would pay in company script and own a monopoly on the housing and grocery stores and by the time the employee paid all the bills with the company script they were broke. Legalized slavery.(October 10, 2012 at 4:52 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Actually, yeah, but right now most of their hiring is going to be seasonal anyway and you'll quickly find yourself unemployed again in January. Plus, they won't give you more than 35 hrs a week (or you won't be paid for more than 35 hrs a week) and therefore won't qualify for any benefits outside of a possible 10% Walmart discount card.
Because if you're earning Wal*Mart wages, the only place you can afford to shop at is... Wal*Mart.
Big business cant legally do that now so the loophole is to create an entire societal gap in pay to make the middle and poor dependent on them.
