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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Costco vs. Walmart and Reader Responses Over Minimum Wage
I received lots of emails and blog comments to my article Reader Question:
Is the Minimum Wage Really a Maximum Wage?
In regards to living wage Tesla responded ...
"You clearly have never run a business. if your employees are not able to
live , or more importantly , just having living problems in general : they
are 1) not going to work hard for you sometimes 2) might steal from you 3)
might destroy your business property or otherwise not protect it from other
thieves."
Quite frankly, that is ridiculous. If you are concerned your employees will
steal from you or destroy your property, you should not hire them in the
first place.
And if someone is worth more than the minimum wage and you are afraid they
will go elsewhere, then you pay more than the minimum wage.
Look at McDonalds's or Walmart. Did they suffer massive theft or property
destruction by employees?
Both recently raised their base pay scale. Why? Because they could not
attract a good work force at the wage they were paying. This is how it
should work, not by living wage nonsense.
Carl responded ...
"Another important thing to remember about the minimum wage is that it
removes from the workforce all those that are not worth the minimum wage.
With a minimum wage, such persons automatically become government dependent."
Yep, exactly.
Ron ...
Reader Dave asks ...
"Hi, Mish. Costco does pay more than Walmart as a big box business. It also
gives employees all holidays off. How do they do it and WMT can't?"
The answer is Costco has a different model. It charges higher prices and its
stores are generally in more upscale areas.
Walmart employs about 2.1 million.
Costco employs 192,000.
OK - let's have Walmart pay the same as Costco. To do it will compete in the
same space as Costco so it will immediately fire 1.9 million people and
close thousands of stores.
Happy with that outcome?
Perhaps not.
So let's just mandate $15.00 an hour higher benefits like Costco, across the
board for every US company. Then let's watch another 4 million jobs vanish.
This is all so obvious that it's ridiculous to be even discussing. Yet here
we are. | a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 2 这个比较根本不成立。
一个大点的城市，Walmart的数目是Costco的好几倍。一个城市如果有一个单位能在
Costco消费的,能在Walmart消费但没有能力在Costco消费的人至少有5个。
如果要Walmart也象Costco一样的成本，这些只能在Walmart消费的人或许要降到2个，
剩下的那3个会继续找一个靠最低小时工资保障成本的地方消费，但那样的地方根本无
法象Walmart这样巨大的零售商一样在这样低的价位保持这样的品质。
最后，就是为了Walmart的员工，损害几十倍低收入者的利益。
而因为消费人数的减少，Walmart必定要削减店面，然后就是Walmart的员工失业。
经济就应该是经济，政治保证人身安全和公平竞争就是了。
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: Costco vs. Walmart and Reader Responses Over Minimum Wage
: I received lots of emails and blog comments to my article Reader Question:
: Is the Minimum Wage Really a Maximum Wage?
: In regards to living wage Tesla responded ...
: "You clearly have never run a business. if your employees are not able to
: live , or more importantly , just having living problems in general : they
: are 1) not going to work hard for you sometimes 2) might steal from you 3)
: might destroy your business property or otherwise not protect it from other
: thieves."
: Quite frankly, that is ridiculous. If you are concerned your employees will
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