[extropy-chat] a real pleasure to work for [dave at farber.net: [IP]Wal-Mart threatens employees: Don't see the Wal-Mart Movie]

[Samantha Atkins]

On Nov 14, 2005, at 7:08 PM, spike wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
>> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
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>> On Nov 14, 2005, at 2:32 AM, BillK wrote:
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>>> They also cite the company's treatment of its employees, whose  
>>> average
>>> annual income is under $14,000...
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>> Hmm.  I wonder why our ire is not also focused on a government that
>> a) owns over 40% of the land;
>> b) takes over 50% of the product of everyone's labor by force... I  
>> am far
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> more horrified and
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>> utterly pissed at the government than at WalMart...
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>> - samantha
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> Some fiend has samantha locked in the back room and
> is using her computer!  Look for a ransom note.
>

I guess you don't know me that well.

> Samantha, wow, this is spoken like a true
> minarcho-capitalist.  We are proud of you.
> Sounds about right to me.
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> Somewhere in this I should point out that
> I had far worse jobs as a teenager than
> Walmart.  I woulda been pleased to work
> there.  Of course I would know that it
> was only a springboard, as I knew some of
> the jobs I had back then were.
>

Yep.  The *very* low-level factory jobs were about the worse.

- samantha