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In reply to the discussion: "Sorry, It's Not a 'Law of Capitalism' That You Pay Your Employees as Little as Possible. It's..." [View all]blackspade
(10,056 posts)undercuts rather than underscores them.
Walmart exploits workers at all levels from production to retail and even exploits the tax payers anywhere they are located.
It is a posterchild for capitalism at its worst.
Corporations like Mondragon by contrast does not exploit its employees, because they are the company's shareholders and board of directors. While it exists in a capitalist system, it is not dependent on it. Worker directed companies can exist at multiple scales and do successfully, not that it is reported in our corporate controlled media. Worker directed enterprises by nature are more competitive in salaries and can produce better products. The problem is, as you point out, that the way our capitalist controlled government is set up, the government subsidies and tax incentives are set up in such a way as to exclude "socialist corporations," as you call them. Yet they still thrive and will hopefully one day bury the capitalist corporate state.