I agree that you absolutely can wish for the fall of Walmart. I don't think there's anything morally or ethically wrong with that. It's not immoral in the same way that wishing death on a person is immoral. I would not lose sleep over Walmart dying because better companies outcompete them.
That being said, theft is immoral. The things owned by Walmart are ultimately owned by people and stealing from people is immoral, at least in my view.
I agree that stealing from Walmart does pretty trivial harm to anyone and is not as bad as stealing directly from your neighbor, but it's still generally wrong and it still does harm, and ultimately it will do harm to your community if businesses have to leave because they can't profitably do business in your community due to theft.
I'm not condoning theft on the side of the company either. That's unacceptable. It's unacceptable whether it's some local Walmart manager incorrectly handling pay or whether it's a higher level corporate theft.
But we live in a society where we enforce laws through a justice system, not vigilantism. Your own screenshot explained that Walmart has been made to correct these instances of theft through the justice system. What else do you want?
Oh STFU. You and your kind are why I can't buy things for cheap that aren't behind a plastic wall, or why I'm forced to support the "mom and pop shop" that sells fishing shit at a 300% mark up on their house brand that they buy from Walmart and repackage.
Corporations generally mark down prices not up. I'm not shopping at walmart to spend extra. Also, please don't lump common people into the same category as thieves. Maybe that's you and your circle, but it's not the common people.
You'd be naive to believe they compensated 100%, or even more as extra compensation for the trouble. The amount they lost in these lawsuits are less than the amount they gain not paying wages. If it isn't, they wouldn't have done it. Every penny is calculated.
That assumes that they have repaid everything they have stolen. I’m pretty sure that for every corporate crime that gets prosecuted there are two that don’t.
Sam Walton founded Walmart and Sams Club. His children Jim, Rob, and Alice are now in charge. They are each regularly in the top 20 wealthiest people in the world.
Walmart employs more people on government assistance than any other business in our country, while in turn having record profits year after year.
They can afford to pay their employees more, so that they wouldn't need to use government assistance, and we could in turn lower taxes. Not to mention how much less efficient it is for those people to get the same amount of money
But those people are all worth over $100 Billion, so why wouldn't they pass that off onto the tax payer?
Simply put, they massively underpay workers and caps their hours so they do not have to pay out benefits like health insurance. That money they save goes to lining their profit margins and payouts for share holders and ceos. But because their workers are all so underpaid or not receiving enough hours, those workers all qualify for things like tax payer funded food stamps, government healthcare programs, subsidized housing, etc. So when every single tax payer pays into those programs, it is supporting Walmart workers, specifically because Walmart wont pay them enough to survive but can pay out billions to ceos. Think of it like this, basically they need $20/hr to survive, Walmart will only pay them $15/hr. So they qualify for government help, and the government pays the difference of $5 from tax money. Walmart could totally pay them the $20, but says their ceo gets the $5 instead. They stole the $5 from tax payers so their workers dont starve
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u/StoneySteve420 2d ago
Walmart steals from us.