• kat_angstrom@lemmy.worldM
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    1 month ago

    Unfortunately “capitalism” as a colloquial term has grown to encompass everything from Shell’s human rights abuses in Nigeria to WalMart’s continual underpaying of full time workers who need to be on food stamps to live.

    What the market allows, persists absent regulations or interventions.

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      1 month ago

      Food stamps has nothing to do with any employer. It’s just repeated so much that some tend to forget that.

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        1 month ago

        I’m not sure what you mean. I’m referencing how Walmart underpays their full time employees so badly that those employees need to be on food stamps in order to afford food.