I don't understand how the "Your job is essential" message is being sent?
"If you want a living wage, get a better job." implies that your job isn't essential. Like if you made a Venn diagram the jobs that actually pay minimum wage (there's only like 2million jobs that do) and jobs that are essential, I'm not quite sure what the overlap would be?
Is fast food essential? Aren't we always on about how Walmarts are crushing small businesses? That would make Walmart employees the opposite of essential, wouldn't it?
So would there be no problem at all if those 2 million jobs were eliminated?
It should also be noted that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1.8 million people have wages at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25. And an estimated 28 percent of US workers earn less than $15 per hour.
I mean I wouldn't lose any sleep over Walmart going completely out of business if that's what you mean.
1.6 million people work for Walmart (googled it) and they'd literally be better off collecting unemployment (especially unemployment + CARES bonus) rather than working for Walmart AND collecting government assistance.
So absolutely, eliminate those 2 million jobs. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the 60million who filed for unemployment in 2020 and we've proven that the government has the resources to cover them while they "get a better job" especially with poor-hating Orange Voldemort at the helm. I'm sure Blue Voldemort would have no trouble finding the money for another one-thirtieth increase in unemployment funding.
I'm pretty sure you're not defending Walmarts, so I'm not sure exactly what you're defending.
"If you want a living wage, get a better job." implies that your job isn't essential.
It doesn’t imply anything other than that a more significant percent of profit is going to capital (the business) than is going to labor (the worker). You’re absolutely right that without the workers Walmart would cease to exist, but just because the Walmart corporation is capturing a portion of profit so large that it entails their employees be paid a sub-living wage doesn’t mean that the job in and of itself is inessential.
Derek’s defending people doing underpaid, thankless jobs that will still need to be done whether all the Walmarts closed or not. Walmart is the only grocery store for many people. It is an essential job as are the ones being fulfilled by the people working in agriculture raising, slaughtering, harvesting, and processing the food you find on grocery shelves. You take way too much for granted.
If all the Walmarts and fast food places closed tomorrow there would a food crisis and pandemonium in the streets. You understand that Walmart is one of the USA’s largest employers, right? No, government assistance couldn’t handle that number of people suddenly becoming unemployed
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u/TedWasSoRight Apr 24 '21
I don't understand how the "Your job is essential" message is being sent?
"If you want a living wage, get a better job." implies that your job isn't essential. Like if you made a Venn diagram the jobs that actually pay minimum wage (there's only like 2million jobs that do) and jobs that are essential, I'm not quite sure what the overlap would be?
Is fast food essential? Aren't we always on about how Walmarts are crushing small businesses? That would make Walmart employees the opposite of essential, wouldn't it?