This seems an apt place to mention this. From the August 2013 edition of Harper's Index:
Corporations pay minimum wage, but hire only part-time employees to dodge having to pay them benefits. They cut their workforce, yet continue to expand. They aren't interested in bolstering the economy at large. They are only interested in bolstering their own profits.
Cap'n, I commend you for doing what you want with your life and valuing your happiness over money. However, not everyone can or wants to live as you do. While anyone who has access to clean, running water and electricity is, globally speaking, wealthy, income disparity is not going to be remedied by everyone dropping off the grid. It's income disparity and lack of social mobility that's the problem. There was an interesting panel discussion of this on Bill Maher this week.... I'll see if I can dig it up.
Quote:Percentage change in the number of Wal*Mart stores nationwide since 2008: +13Sited from Wal*Mart's own documentation.
In the size of Wal*Mart's retail workforce: 0
Corporations pay minimum wage, but hire only part-time employees to dodge having to pay them benefits. They cut their workforce, yet continue to expand. They aren't interested in bolstering the economy at large. They are only interested in bolstering their own profits.
Cap'n, I commend you for doing what you want with your life and valuing your happiness over money. However, not everyone can or wants to live as you do. While anyone who has access to clean, running water and electricity is, globally speaking, wealthy, income disparity is not going to be remedied by everyone dropping off the grid. It's income disparity and lack of social mobility that's the problem. There was an interesting panel discussion of this on Bill Maher this week.... I'll see if I can dig it up.
