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In reply to the discussion: The Most Addictive Infographic About Walmart's Greed We've Ever Seen [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)The reason the caseworkers at the local mental health unit are making such a shitty wage is actually DUE to corporations like Walmart. They pay shit in corporate taxes, they pay their employees shit so the government has to make up the difference, they don't give out benefits which means people have to rely on gov't mental health care, which leaves the government in a crappy position of having to decide do they give caseworkers $10,000 more/yr or do they feed hungry children of Walmart workers?
Have you ever been a cashier? Besides, most cashiers don't ONLY do one thing. When I was a cashier, I did inventory, data entry, customer service, janitorial duties, stocking, and I was the receptionist on top of it all. I was worth every penny I was paid.
You, thankfully, don't get to decide what is 'useful' enough to society to demand a living wage. Those self-checkout thingies are disappearing where I live because there was too much theft, and it required nearly as many staff to assist people using them as it did to ring them through themselves.
dude, it's not a race to the bottom. Why are you advocating for that single mom to make LESS instead of wondering why-in-the-ever-living-fuck ANYONE with a master's is making $25,000/yr and how do we change that?