Why Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Is More Evil Than Walmart and McDonald’s

[guillaumeb]

231. points taken but...

1)but your sample size is too small to be other than anecdotal experience. Would you generalize from one experience about anything.?

2)As to "on par" I believe we are discussing two different things here. Paying someone a non-living wage is a flawed business model because as the economy has more and more of these substandard wage jobs, the ability of the consumer to participate in the economy is weakened. Given that 70% of GDP is consumer spending, anything that depresses that spending in the micro sense depresses the macro economy as well.

3) I believe that the author intended to make the point that because of the enormous, unprecedented disparity in wealth and pay between the top 1% and the bottom 90%, any talk of averages is flawed. In a sample size of ten, 9 can earn 10,000 a year but if the other makes 1,000,000 per year I would not state that the group average income of 109,000 indicates a healthy economy.

4) Here is a link talking about wages at McDonalds. There are others. In my view, all talk of a minimum wage should be reframed as the right to a living wage. Your thoughts?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-do-mcdonalds-workers-really-make-per-hour/

(I find your arguments to be far better than many here who rely on emoticons as a substitute for logic.)