Walmart's Fake Publicity

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  1. resisting arrest

    resisting arrest Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Fake publicity: Walmart spends $755 million on bonuses for its 2.2 million employees. That is $343 each. Total Walmart revenue = $524 billion, so total cost of bonuses cost .001% of Walmart total revenue. This exploitation and fleecing of workers is How Capitalism Works.

    Capitalist leaders in Germany & France see what US capitalist leaders still cannot. By impoverishing the masses, you destroy your market. Dr. Karl Marx called it a "contradiction of capitalism."

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...-that-theyll-spend-that-much-in-q2-2020-05-19

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...-a-u-turn-in-germany-s-eu-policy?srnd=premium
     
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  2. Andrew Jackson

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    Your math is off.

    It is about .15%.

    1% of 524 Billion = 5.24 Billion.

    0.1% = 524 Million
     
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  3. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That is the beauty of capitalism. You are free to spend with your conscience. Based on your beliefs, you should buy everything you can from Walmart since the items come from China, the model of government you support.
     
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    TheGreatSatan Banned

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    I like Walmart

    If Democrats could they would close down stores like Walmart. One thing you will never hear is a Democrat talking about how awesome Walmart is.

    You will miss it when it's gone :twisted:
     
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    Wildjoker5 Well-Known Member

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    Revenue =/= profit. But hey, don't let me stop your spin.
     
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    So you don't want your bonus? How is giving someone a bonus impoverishing them?
     
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    I recommend you stick with communism. You have no clue about how businesses work.
     
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  8. jay runner

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    Yeah, once you agree to work for a certain hourly rate or a salary it's unusual to receive a little bit extra thrown in gratis that didn't have to be thrown in for you.

    But if you are upset by more, there's no chains on the door, you are free to walk out and hit the bricks looking for a better job.
     
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    Communism is superior to capitalism. In communism, you need a hospital, you just command there be one and it poofs into existence compete with the best doctors and equipment. Everything is free.
     
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    roorooroo Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yep, and then when they realize that Marx wasn't a magician, then they start thinking that us taxpaying working stiffs just can't wait to rush to work so we can expend our time, and our blood, sweat, and tears laboring so that some communistic moron can have free food, free housing, and free healthcare. In their heads, our labor isn't actually ours, it belongs to the community. Ugh.
     
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    How many employees do you have and what sort of bonuses and compensation do you give them?
     
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    JET3534 Well-Known Member

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    Why do I envision a lot of these neo-commies being losers living in their parents basement?
     
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    That's a substantial sum of money.
    Bonuses are NOT paid with Total Revenue, they are paid with NET Revenue.
    Most Hobo's know that bonuses are paid with NET rather than GROSS revenue, why would anyone listen to your critique of free markets when you are less informed on the basics than most hobos?
    Marx is a Washed Up Has Been whose predictions of widespread revolution followed by utopia have been repeatedly falsified to disrepute by most of the sentient.
     
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    Nah under communism the people who won’t work get sent to a labor camp. Folks never seem to mention the amount of power the govt needs to enforce communism.
     
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    You are correct. Let me change my thought to the following:

    Yep, and then when they realize that Marx wasn't a magician, then they start thinking that us taxpaying working stiffs just can't wait to rush to work so we can expend our time, and our blood, sweat, and tears laboring so that some social-democracy moron can have free food, free housing, and free healthcare.
     
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    Because independent people don't advocate for their own enslavement. That's what the people stalin would call "useful..." do.
     
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    Or the government decides a hospital is needed so they figure out how to make it as cheaply as possible so the party members can get their financial share.
     
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    It is all about freedom. Wal Mart has the freedom to pay what they want and the employees have the freedom to look elsewhere for work if they want more money.

    In a capitalist system there are plenty of opportunities to improve ones own circumstances. In a socialist system people are poor and stay that way.

    I will take capitalism any day.
     
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    Why aren't the pro-America crowd ever critical of American owned businesses that bring the vast majority of their product over from China? Products that are also made in America, but much cheaper coming from China.
     
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    The pro-America crowd has always been critical of such things.
     
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    So why all the love and support for Walmart?
     
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    Not from me. Hillary sat on the board of Wal Mart so why not ask her?
     
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    People get paid what they’re worth. I’m not going to pay a painter $500/hour to paint my house to keep him from being “impoverished”.
     
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    because Walmart with the tens of thousands of provided jobs and with the lower prices saving the poor millions Walmart has done more to help the poor then any democrat program ever did
     
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    A great many of their tens of thousands of employees are on foodstamps, while the Walton family is one of the wealthiest in the country. And they keep those prices low because of the cheap alternatives to American made products they import from China.

    One of Trump's rally cries was that he wanted to bring business back to America. But Walmart has yet to be targeted. I just don't understand...
     

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