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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Commissary, anyone?[/quote]

I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.

But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.[/quote]

People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say? [/quote]

No, people flounder when they have been infantilized and dependent on others and now have to grow up and live independently.

Even our national parks know this; don’t feed the wildlife, they stop learning to forage for their own food [/quote]

That belief only works if capitalist society provides people the means to live independently.  Ever tried supporting a family of four on Walmart wages?  They deliberately underpay their workers, knowing that SNAP benefits will make up the difference.  The government is subsidizing these large corporations.

Seems like the corporations should learn how to forage for themselves.[/quote]

If you are a Walmart shelf stocker trying to feed a family of four, it isn’t capitalism that put you in this situation, but a series of poor choices.

And for the record, Walmart pays very well for people who move up the ladder, like $75k - 130k for middle managers. Upwards of $300,000 for super store managers.

Trying to live of minimum wage with a family is hard, because it isn’t meant to be a career but an entrance into employment. [/quote]

Not everyone can be a super store manager. For every manager, there are dozens of employees.  They aren’t all going to get promoted, not because they’re incompetent but because there aren’t enough job openings.

So it isn’t “poor choices”, it’s simple mathematics, although the just world fallacy is comforting to people who are born on third base and think they hit a triple.[/quote]

+1 Silly comment. Every company has a pyramid, and as a matter of structure, not skill, not everyone can rise to the top. Walmart can only have one CEO at a time, so all those hourly workers may aspire to that, but none of them will have a shot at it. This conversation is about what an organization with huge profits ($19.436 billion) pays to those at the bottom of the pyramid that supports and holds up that CEO.

Walmart's top 6 executives earned a combined $99.99 million dollars last year, while their employees rely on government subsidies to feed their families. In what world is that responsible business, moral leadership, rational, fair, or just?

The highest minimum wage in the U.S. is $21.16. Those 6 execs earn the equivalent of 23,000 people combined earning the highest minimum wage in the US on a full 40-hour a week schedule. But of course, most minimum wage earneres only get $7.25/hour and only get an average of 23 hours per week. In that real world, those six people took out of the collective profits a bigger share than 25,000 of their employees combined. [/quote]

That's why the fiduciary duty language needs to be amended or eliminated for large corporations. It's just an excuse for indentured servitude. No corporations should have tens of billions in profit sitting offshore. [/quote]

It's not up to you to decide the wages of others. If you want to do that, buy a business and start employing people.[/quote]

Literally proved my point on why slave labor laws need to be amended. Gottem![/quote]

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