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In reply to the discussion: The Most Addictive Infographic About Walmart's Greed We've Ever Seen [View all]bobclark86
(1,415 posts)"So your argument is everyone should be paid less because people with college degrees can't find a decent paying job?"
No. People who do more to actually help other people should get paid more. The caseworkers at the local mental health clinic in a rural area who makes $25,000 a year with a master's degree shouldn't be on the same pay scale as a Walmart greeter.
"The person who serves you, the person who cleans up after you, the person who makes your life easier, is not worth 50 grand a year to you?"
You mean mostly me? Sorry, I don't have a maid or even a neighborhood kid to shovel my snow. I can use one of the self-checkout stations and bag my own junk.
"So, how much is it worth to you not to have your garbage piled up on the street?"
Garbage men in my area are union and make a hell of a lot more than $11 an hour. There's a difference between bagging groceries and physically hauling thousands of pounds of potentially hazardous waste in the course of a day.
"Tell us what a fair wage is for all those people who "don't do anything for society."
Less than the guys caring for your nursing home-bound grandmother, or helping the sexually-abused teenage girl with Down syndrome learn how to take care of herself who now make less than the Walmart employee whose only job requirements are knowing how to push a computer button when it tells you to and how to swipe a bar code.