Mercedes Schneider wrote a commentary on the Supreme Court decision that rejects the appeal of the billionaires who own Walmart. They argued that they didn’t have to pay workers for their meal breaks or rest breaks. The Supreme Court sided with the workers against the billionaires.
What kind of people would deny payments to low-wage employees for the time it takes to eat or rest?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Never purchased anything from Walmart and never will unless Walmart miraculously changes the treatment of its workers.
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You ask what kind of people would do this….the same kind of greed- filled slime that teaches their workers how to apply for food stamps and for free clinic health care. The same kind of vultures who believe in corporate welfare for themselves, but work to stifle any hope for the rest of the world. The same kind who sell cheap Chinese goods and keep American workers from earning a living while knowing that these cheap goods will rapidly fall apart so that poor people will have to keep buying from them…and all along their underlying philosophy is that their workers are replaceable, interchangeable, like their cheap shirts.
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John Maynard Keynes stated, I quote (sort of): Capitalism is the belief that some nasty people doing some nasty things will benefit society.
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…and Forbes lists them as the richest family on the planet. Their heads should roll first when the guillotines come out.
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Michael Brocoum: I found this on a Google search—
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/159357.John_Maynard_Keynes
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Thanks you. I’d say my “quote” was at least in the general vicinity (LOL).
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As if you didn’t know, I am a rabid Keynsian.
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Ditto!
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Ah, here’s the version I had:
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.”
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Close enough. LOL
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Who? People infected with the sickness of greed. And apparently we are in the midst of a global epidemic, with no cure in sight.
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Why would I pay my workers when they’re not on task?
(sarcasm)
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“What kind of people would deny payments to low-wage employees for the time it takes to eat or rest?”
The same crowd that, for example, mandates tests to punish students in order to squeeze every last bit of $tudent $ucce$$ out of them.
Known long long ago by a very dead and very old and very Roman guy:
“For greed all nature is too little.” [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]
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I refuse to shop at Walmart because of how they treat their employees. This poor treatment of workers comes from one of the wealthiest families in the US..and they expect their employees to get food stamps to survive. There is something very wrong with this scenario.
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The pigs who are children of Sam Walmart, share his ever increasing fortune now listed as over $143 Billion. That is more than the GDI of many nations.
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addendum…the Koch brothers are next with a mere $43 Billion each, of close to $90 Billion between them. What kind of aberant mentality causes these ultra wealthy individuals to more, more, more???
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I too, have refused to shop at Walmart for the last few years because of their unfair treatment and low worker salaries. I haven’t seen anything yet that would change my opinion of Walmart and the Walton family.
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The truth is no one cares what happens to low wage people at work. They have no political representation or advocates in government.
They’re completely ignored.
That’s why I was so pleased to see Fight For Fifteen. They better act as their own advocates. No one else ever will.
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Hi Chiara:
It is not because “They have no political representation or advocates in government”, but because most of poor/”illegal immigrants” workers are gullible and believing in Walmart care for their well being. Most of all, the corrupted union leader works with employer and management in order to bully/ fire the “smart” workers who protest for benefits. I have been there in my youth to see corrupted union leader who worked with management to bully whoever dares to speak out against management. C’ est la vie pour les pauvres, mais intelligence.
Back2basic.
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And–anytime the Waltons are directed to pay their workers decently, their answer is to up their own profit-margin by–closing down stores (many of which are in areas dependent upon the Walmart for food & other items, after the Walmarts opened put the Mom-&-Pop stores out of business) & creating even more unemployment and poverty.
However, I recently read an article (forget where & who by) that opined this might mean the return of those small businesses to their rightful place(s). But–will they be able to get bank financing to open them?
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I find the Waltons sadistic. They have not earned anything. Their father did. They simply have carried the belief in no redistribution of profits to its maximum. They could be slave holders if the law would allow as it once did.
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“They have not earned anything. Their father did.”
How do you “ earn” a billion?
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Just as the mine workers in 1920 felt like slaves to the mine owners, Walmart workers feel the same to the Waltons. But the Fight for Fifteen is on the right track so they don’t owe their soul to the company store.
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Another quote:
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.” Andrew Jackson
Expect Walmart and EVERY company to do everything they can to increase their profits. It is up to our government to restrict them and protect the people. God help us.
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I stopped shopping at Walmart decades ago the first time I heard they supported vouchers, but to be honest, I seldom if ever shopped there before I heard about that.
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I teach. I don’t get paid on my 30 min lunch time. (8 1/2 hours in the building.)
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Are you salaried or time clock employee?
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Duane, I’m salaried, but fill out a time card. Mandated 8 1/2 hours in building for 8 hour day. It’s really not that unusual.
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That doesn’t alter the fact that it’s abusive and should be ended. Either pay you for the 1/2 hour or shorten your day by 1/2 hour.
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“The Billionaire’s Burden” (based on the White Man’s Burden, by Rudyard Kipling”
Take up the Billionaire’s burden, Send forth the tests ye breed
Go bind your schools to test style, to serve his markets’ need;
The weight of heavy VAMness, On captive folk and mild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half teacher and half child.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden, In patience to abide,
To veil the scheme for teachbots, The rationale to hide;
By coded speech of Orwell, you really must take pains
To make a hefty profit, And see the major gains.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden, The public schools to fleece—
Fill full the days with testing And Common Core disease;
And when your goal is nearest The end that you have sought,
Pay heed to Opt-out Folly Lest all your hopes be naught.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden, A tawdry rule of Kings,
The toil of IT keeper, The sale of software things.
The data ye shall enter, On privacy to tread,
To make a “decent” living, Until they all are dead.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought he us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the Billionaire’s burden, Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor fulminate ‘gainst Apple To cloak your Siri-ness;
By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh Diane on you!
Take up the Billionaire’s burden, Have done with childish days—
The Kindergarten playing, The test-less former ways
Comes now, to search Reform-hood, through all the Duncan years
Cold, edged with Gates-bought wisdom, The plan of Billionaires!
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I wonder what would have happened if Scalia was alive…
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