I never said it was, I just used Walmart as the example because it is easy to verify the numbers.
You don’t think corporate America lobbied hard for this, they benefit the most? 🤣
We have artificially low wages by design, thanks to our welfare state. There is no free market benefit for corporations that pay higher wages because welfare. Is already inflating the wages.
If company 1 is paying 10$ an hour and company 2 is paying 15$ an hour but employees of company 1 get the equivalent of 6$ an hour in taxpayer funded welfare benefits who is benefiting in this situation? Company 2 should be getting better workers in a free market but because of the welfare state the higher wages are meaningless. There is no longer any wage competition because welfare suppresses it. Who is going to switch jobs for a pay raise that will cost you your welfare benefits.
Perhaps it is the government at fault for providing benefits to people who are obviously capable of work? The person working is actually supplementing their welfare benefits by working at Walmart (or any other job) and not the reverse that you claim.
Blaming companies for taking advantage of situations created by government is lopsided thinking. It is much like saying Trump paid zero taxes because he followed existing tax law.
In other words, Walmart didn’t make the laws, so place the blame where it belongs and that is on the liberal governments ever increasing give aways.
I don’t think the corporations lobbied hard for this at all. I think the Dems have always engaged in vote buying with welfare spending.
I had a grandmother that bussed tables a couple of days a week practically up until she died because she wanted the exercise and the excuse to get out and meet people. I am sure she enjoyed the money, but having something to do was way more important.
She liked bussing tables because it was simple and easy and allowed for chit chat with the regulars.
Should her SS and Medicare be penalized for that? Ah hell no.
Young people who are go getters and willing to work 40-60/wk don’t stay in these starter, part-time, subsidized positions for long. They move up into management or move on to better jobs. If people are “stuck” in them, it’s because they choose it.
I’d be happy to end the welfare system overnight, but I’m not going to fault corporations for being willing to hire from the shallow end of the pool to meet their workforce needs.