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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
You're looking at it wrong. At these labor rates, you could hire your favorite pedicurist full time, have them at your beck and call, and still pay them twice what one of these shops are paying. Invite your clients over for pedicures.
But of course, everyone time one shops at Walmart, you're encouraging this sort of thing, not just went you grab the $10 special from the pedicurist down the alley.
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If you're talking about Walmart's labor policy, I'm pretty sure that regardless of all the ways they game the system, they at least mostly comply with wage and hour laws in the US. Leave aside whether that alone is sufficient for social justice, but ...
If you're talking about the labor practices of Walmart's suppliers overseas, yes. And I encourage it by using my iPhone and wearing Nikes. And everytime I complain I mention how "free" trade isn't really free trade because many countries subsidize the production of goods by either not having or not enforcing labor (or environmental) standards re wages and safety, I get laughed at and told that we can't stop the Invisible Hand ("from smacking labor around" is the unspoken end of the statement.
Whatever. I think I'm writing in Michael Harrington's name on my presidential primary ballot next year.
