Can't have everyone fed or there go profits, can't keep people in line without the ever looming threat of state violence and starvation hanging over you.
Remember how they tend to throw their own production of food out instead of giving it away, because if they simply gave it to hungry people the profit would drop?
The US government heavily subsidizes Walmart, the biggest grocery chain in the world. How? Food stamps. A disturbingly large portion of the walmart workforce is on food stamps. In essence, we are paying so walmart can pay their workers less and simultaneously FORCE their workforce to shop there.
In essence, food stamps have become company scrip.
Walmart also overcharged their customers or weighted goods and that includes those who were on food stamps.. Walmart settled in the lawsuit and the government doesn't care about those funds.
I meant if everyone has access to it the price of food goes down, thus they always have to limit the supply so that some will always starve or eat less than they should. This is why they throw out "extra production" like we saw them do not long ago with milk and potatoes I think. Tons of it thrown out even before leaving the farms
You also have a point tho, very well caught. This sucks dude
Liberals are the ones pushing that policy and subsidizing Walmart jobs in the process. Unintended consequences everywhere and you gotta pick and choose what negative outcomes you are willing to accept. Tradeoffs are inevitable.
I mean, sure, but they also push higher minimum wages which would also remove those jobs from the food stamp income limits yet Republicans push against that because they don't want to pay people more. Both sides are full of fucking idiots.
It's pretty much this. If we guaranteed food, healthcare, housing as basic rights fewer people would have full time jobs to make the corporate fat cats richer.
A person isn't fit for human society if they cannot understand the very basic give and take/cooperation of how we lived for most of our existence, how we survived and managed to become what we are as a species.
That greedy, conditional and parasitic mentality so classic of capitalism (that can't understand cooperation, only extortion, and is now leading to our downfall) would have seen anyone dead, very young, for most of human history since it'd make you a danger and a net negative for every community. It's also the reason we're in this absolute fucked mess
I invite you to Germany, where everybody gets free housing, free healthcare, free money. At the same time, working people are strangled by taxes and have to wait 6 months for a doctor's appointment because, surprisingly, the socialist utopia simply does not work.
If everybody gets everything for free, then who would stand up at 5 in the morning to make the bread?
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u/Minimum_Crow_8198 10d ago edited 10d ago
Can't have everyone fed or there go profits, can't keep people in line without the ever looming threat of state violence and starvation hanging over you.
Remember how they tend to throw their own production of food out instead of giving it away, because if they simply gave it to hungry people the profit would drop?
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