Posted on 05/24/2024 3:06:01 PM PDT by grundle
Socialist propaganda website Jacobin was the subject of a hilarious community note on X when posting an article about Walmart’s first-quarter profits.
The site posted the article “Walmart Is Still Putting Ebenezer Scrooge to Shame” on Monday, May 20. It described the retailer as “infamous for its starvation wages.”
“The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps,” the post added.
However, social media users were quick to point out the low rates of pay for Jacobin’s writers, who are only paid $0.07 per word.
This pay rate – for which writers are asked to complete at least 1,800 words – is at lower end of the pay scale for inexperienced, beginner writers. Alas, a worker at Walmart, who can enjoy additional company benefits, outearns the average writer in the Jacobin sweatshop when you account for the amount of research and editing it takes to complete a 1,800 word article.
Wal*Mart is on my “Only if I must” list for shopping for various reasons. However, none of those reasons have to do with their wages. They actually pay fairly well and have done so for at least the past three decades.
Or having ChatGPT write it for you.
Nice realtime story.
Just a hair split but Piggly Wiggly’s HQ is in Keene, New Hampshire. There used to be dozens of PW stores and a big warehouse in the Charleston, SC area. Now there’s only 6 stores left and the warehouse closed years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly
Sam Walton broke the power of the Chicken Men who held this county in an economic stranglehold and did pay starvation wages.
When he paid more people flocked to the jobs Sam offerd. So the Chicken Men had a chance to give their employees a (back then) 25 cents an hour wage, and they chose not to do it. They went to Mexico and brought in legal immigrants who would still work for their starvation wages.
Today Benton and Washington Counties Arkansas are two of the richest counties in the South.
Or having AI do your work.....
Today he would be selling all electric everything when he should be sitting in a rocking chair enjoying his grandchildren… But here we are
Nobody is forced to work at Walmart. Enough people go elsewhere and they’ll jack up wages (and prices).
1,800 word article is $126.00
Not bad if you are plagiarizing.
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Or using AI to write it.
Not sure what you are saying in response to my post?
There’s more technology involved in working for Walmart than many know. Workers do more than manual labor.
Today, people who would be in middle class comfort are trying to make middle class wages while driving a pizza delivery route, or pouring coffee at Starbucks. Those are jobs for high-school kids or stay-at-homes looking to get out of the house for a few hours and make a few extra bucks.
In the small town in northern Illinois where I live (population around 45K) there are probably 100 or more people just finishing their evening of delivering dinner right now. I don't care how nice your car is or how many college degrees you have, the quality of your performance is based on, did dinner arrive within a reasonable time frame, did the right order get delivered, and hopefully nobody spit on my dinner. That's what determines the tip.
There is an entire generation of Americans (maybe 2?) who have no idea what middle class is. All they know is that somebody cheated them out of it, and they don't know who to blame,
Ok?
As the employees master the increased technology for their job assignment, are they not compensated for their expanding skills?
“No one in my immediate area is starving to death working in a retail store, ‘Jacobin.’
No one in all of America is starving, ‘Jacobin.’ Even those that don’t WANT to work!”
If anything, it’s the reverse. Americans are getting huge.
“All they know is that somebody cheated them out of it, and they don’t know who to blame.”
And yet, they’ll keep voting for the same SOBs who sent the good paying jobs overseas. ;)
If promoted, yes.
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