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Turkeytop
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by Turkeytop » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:35 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:29 pm
In this country, they are mythical. We have lower class, variations of middle, and then upper class.
So which class is it that volunteers to work for nothing at Walmart checkouts?
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
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Matt
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by Matt » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:40 pm
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:35 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:29 pm
In this country, they are mythical. We have lower class, variations of middle, and then upper class.
So which class is it that volunteers to work for nothing at Walmart checkouts?
Walmart pays well for the skill required. They're likely lower class or lower middle class. Trained monkeys could do that job.
Voting for Trump is dumber than playing Russian Roulette with fully loaded chambers.
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Turkeytop
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by Turkeytop » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:43 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:40 pm
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:35 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:29 pm
In this country, they are mythical. We have lower class, variations of middle, and then upper class.
So which class is it that volunteers to work for nothing at Walmart checkouts?
Walmart pays well for the skill required. They're likely lower class or lower middle class. Trained monkeys could do that job.
Why pay even a trained monkey if they can get their customers to do the job instead?
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
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audiophile
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by audiophile » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:45 pm
Yes that is exactly what a $15 minimum wage will do.
Ask not what your country can do FOR you; ask what they are about to do TO YOU!!
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by Matt » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:46 pm
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:43 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:40 pm
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:35 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:29 pm
In this country, they are mythical. We have lower class, variations of middle, and then upper class.
So which class is it that volunteers to work for nothing at Walmart checkouts?
Walmart pays well for the skill required. They're likely lower class or lower middle class. Trained monkeys could do that job.
Why pay even a trained monkey if they can get their customers to do the job instead?
Its really not much of a job. I prefer to bag my own groceries and with covid its better to skip the interaction.
Voting for Trump is dumber than playing Russian Roulette with fully loaded chambers.
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Turkeytop
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by Turkeytop » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:47 pm
audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:45 pm
Yes that is exactly what a $15 minimum wage will do.
Is Michigan's minimum wage going up to $15?
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
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Rate This
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by Rate This » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:27 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:29 pm
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:26 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:18 pm
appearance of TT's mythical working class individuals.
Now hold on there. We aren't mythical. And a real working class person wouldn't use self scan. It takes jobs away from working class people. Why would they pay a cashier, if I'm willing to do her job for free?
In this country, they are mythical. We have lower class, variations of middle, and then upper class.
Exactly.
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Turkeytop
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by Turkeytop » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:42 pm
Rate This wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:27 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:29 pm
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:26 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:18 pm
appearance of TT's mythical working class individuals.
Now hold on there. We aren't mythical. And a real working class person wouldn't use self scan. It takes jobs away from working class people. Why would they pay a cashier, if I'm willing to do her job for free?
In this country, they are mythical. We have lower class, variations of middle, and then upper class.
Exactly.
I don't wear a Trump hat or any other kind of hat. Except in this brutally cold weather we're in now, I wear a toque. That's not a working class thing. It's just a Canadian thing.
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.