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Originally Posted by taxwonk
I believe in small because when you work small, people remain accountable to one another. If you hire someone to work at your mom & pop and they live down the street, you can believe you'll be paying them enough that they don't need food stamps.
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Yeah, right. This is the old "slaveholders with three slaves instead of a plantation full treated them better".
There is no shortage of small operations that rely on underpaid under-the-table workers to serve their food, stock their shelves, tailor their clothes, etc. Walmarts makes an art of paying the minimum permitted by law, many a small operation simple pays less than the minimum permitted but chooses their victims carefully.
There are a lot of small operations I like a lot and frequent. I think I've been inside a Wallmart twice in my life, I don't like them.
But I'm still going to Starbucks.
