(October 10, 2012 at 6:12 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(October 10, 2012 at 5:12 pm)festive1 Wrote: Because if you're earning Wal*Mart wages, the only place you can afford to shop at is... Wal*Mart.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.
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.
Interesting... I've been doing some research into the American labor movement... This is going in my notes for verification and details...
