Building an army of happy worker bees
by digby
Who says giant corporations that pay their workers poverty level wages don’t have hearts?
See, this is the difference between McDonalds and Walmart, which was revealed to be doing Thanksgiving charitable work by soliciting donations of canned goods from their underpaid workers to give to their fellow underpaid workers. (I suppose the idea is that some of the elderly associates who are working part time into their 80s to keep a roof over their heads can just mix up some Friskies casserole for themselves and donate another can to the younger ones with family.) Here’s the problem: Walmart is creating “dependence” among its workers by exhorting its employees to share their meager incomes while McDonald’s is teaching their workers how they can lower the stress of not having enough money to live and making them happier to be poor.
When you look at it that way, Walmart is actually endorsing some kind of quasi-socialist collectivism while McDonalds is creating an army of somnambulant drones. I think we know which is the capitalist organization of the future don’t you?
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